Reducing Recidivism Through Design: A Proposal for Improved and Effective Supportive Housing
| dc.contributor.advisor | Buzzell, Kelsey | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Zimmer, Linda | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hill, Sarah | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-27T16:49:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-27T16:49:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description | 1 page. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The United States has a history of incarcerating more people per capita than any other country in the world. While there are many factors contributing to these exceedingly high prison populations, the key contributing factor to the consistency of these rates is the notion of recidivism. The significantly deficient amount of effective and well-designed transitional and supportive housing facilities in the U.S. largely contributes to these high rates of recidivism, rather than prevents them. With research conducted through interviews, case studies, and design critiques, this prototypical design proposal will explore how transitional housing facilities can be improved by placing an emphasis on trauma-informed design, residential design, dynamic security, communal living spaces, adequate supportive facilities, welcoming familial environments, and plenty of access to the outdoors. This particular proposal will focus on rehabilitating women and their children, but can and should be replicated to serve male facilities, as well. Strategically located in the state of California, this prototypical design is given a platform to succeed upon. The success of one properly designed supportive housing facility has the potential to reduce the rates of recidivism at a local level. However, purposefully designed to be easily replicated, the success of thousands of properly designed supportive housing facilities have the potential to reduce the rates of recidivism at a national level, as well. | en_US |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7668-8946 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/26420 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | |
| dc.rights | CC0 | |
| dc.subject | Trauma-Informed Design | en_US |
| dc.subject | Supportive Housing | en_US |
| dc.subject | Adaptive Re-Use | en_US |
| dc.subject | Transitional Housing | en_US |
| dc.subject | Interior Architecture | en_US |
| dc.title | Reducing Recidivism Through Design: A Proposal for Improved and Effective Supportive Housing | |
| dc.type | Presentation |