Status : Verified
| Personal Name | Abdul, Araschid Jikiri A. |
|---|---|
| Resource Title | A community-based Philippine correctional facility |
| Date Issued | March 2007 |
| Abstract | Once again, the pendulum of justice and correctional ideology and model swings; Paramount to a passive adaptation of architectural design to this philosophical shift, architecture should be an active vessel for social reform, carrying with it ideas of the highest hopes for a better society. This study pilot that vessel towards answering a few of the many pressing social issues regarding justice and phonology, especially concerning the built environment that represents these bodies of knowledge -- correctional facilities. The study shall be conceptualized to design a template Philippine correctional facility both on theoretical-ideological and physical-architectural grounds aiming to assist a steady transition into the principles of community-based correctional alternatives as the guide to better facilities for the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders in the community. The study shall explore these principles of community-based corrections; and compare it with existing and operational principles of the Philippine correctional system. It shall also look into the existing physical conditions of some of the country's facilities; Manila City Jail, Quezon City Jail, and the medium and minimum security facilities of the New Bilibid Prisons -- Camp Sampaguita and Camp Bukang Liwayway respectively -- and relate through a case study how they fail to represent modern correctional ideologies and models that has been espoused in its system and management program and its viability to adopt further, principles of community-based correctional alternatives. Also the study shall quickly look into policies concerning the latest proposed correctional facilities, the principles governing them and their initial design idea -- Executive Order 568 and House Bill 3079, to see the trend in the state's philosophy in providing solutions to the pressing problems regarding corrections. It shall investigate the nature of crime and the behavior of the offenders, and assess, the li |
| Degree Course | Bachelor of Science in Architecture |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Prisons--Designs and plans; Correctional facilities |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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