Prison Architecture a Typological Analysis of Spatial Organizations in Respect to Punishment Systems
Prison Architecture A Typological Analysis of Spatial Organizations in respect to Punishment Systems By G. Deniz DOKGÖZ A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE Department : Architecture Major : Architecture İzmir Institute of Technology İzmir, Turkey September, 2002 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to thank to my supervisor Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özen Eyüce for her creative suggestions, sensitive critiques and great support during the preparation of this thesis. I especially thank Yılmaz Konursay, İsmail Cem Kantarlı, Mert Topoyan, Kaan Bal, Burhan Öztürk, Özgür Muhtar Cirik, Serkan Bilgiç, and Umut Taylan Ersoy for their technical support. Last but not least, I owe special thanks to Tuba Çetinkaya for his spiritual and technical support throughout the study and I would like to express my gratitude to my family for their unlimited patience, encouragement and support at every moment of my life. ii ABSTRACT The concepts of crime and punishment have always been a part of culture in every society throughout the history of mankind. However, the acts accepted as ‘crime’ and the penalties imposed upon criminals for the same crime have revealed differences in each society and in each era. Prior to the Modern Age, almost in all societies, punishment was an open public activity to warn people and imprisonment was not a way of punishment; instead it was only a measure impeding the criminal’s escape until the execution of punishment. Modern world, at the beginning, has tried to use punishment for dictating definite ‘norms’ instead of frightening; later on, instead of corporal execution some other punishment systems have been used as a means of creating individuals submitting to the authority on the way to the formation of inspection oriented ‘New Society’.
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