British Professor of Criminology Yvonne Jewkes examines how our built environments affect people.

Her work takes her all around the world, comparing prisons in Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, the US and Ireland.

She looks at how the design, and each country’s approach to incarceration, affects recidivism, violence and suicide among inmates.

The author talks of the frustrations when design ideas are ignored because of budget constraints or political pressure to not be seen to be too soft on convicted criminals, even if the end designs simply repeat the mistakes of the past.

Ms Jewkes also looks into how architecture affects other parts of her life.

She examines the design of the home in which she was raised by an alcoholic father, and that of the poorly renovated house she once shared with a former partner.