IPIC2024-PID001 by Dominique Moran

Green Spaces in Prison - Balancing Risks and Benefits

Author

Dominique Moran

Professor of Carceral Geography, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Dominique Moran is an academic researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is a leading specialist in the design of prisons both for better prisoner and staff wellbeing, and for better sustainability and biodiversity outcomes. She has conducted research on prisons in the UK, Norway, Denmark and the Russian Federation, and her work has also been used to shape prison design in contexts as diverse as the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands and Colombia. She has acted as specialist consultant to numerous prison design projects.
She is author and co-author of numerous academic papers reporting on the relationship between aspects of prison design and prisoner and staff wellbeing, and she is lead editor of 'The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Design' - the first collection of academic research into prison design and its effects.

Her most recent research has demonstrated a robust relationship between green spaces in prison and lower levels of self-harm and violence amongst prisoners, lower levels of prison staff sickness absence, and higher levels of self-reported prisoner wellbeing. She plans to take this research forward into an international comparative study, and is planning a Design Guide for safe and biodiverse green spaces in prisons.

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