In the second half of the nineteenth century an unprecedented number of prisons were built across the Western-influenced world. However, many more developed from repurposed and modified buildings. By applying space syntax analysis to examples from the then British colony of Malta, this article investigates the commonalities of penal space across a series of purpose-built and refashioned prisons, taking into consideration key architectural phases resulting from remodelling. Rejecting the notion that Maltese developments are merely symptomatic of British colonialism, the spread of Western prisons is cast in terms of wider trends and the global spread of a particular type of penal space.

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十九世纪马耳他刑罚空间的全球化

在 19 世纪下半叶，受西方影响的世界建造了数量空前的监狱。然而，更多的建筑是从重新利用和改造的建筑中发展起来的。通过将空间句法分析应用于当时的英国殖民地马耳他的例子，本文调查了一系列专门建造和改造的监狱中刑罚空间的共性，同时考虑了改造产生的关键建筑阶段。拒绝认为马耳他的发展仅仅是英国殖民主义症状的观点，西方监狱的传播是根据更广泛的趋势和特定类型刑罚空间的全球传播而定的。