ABSTRACT
Secure bullying research, namely that applied to prisons and secure psychiatric units, continues to remain an area of research populated by few researchers and affords limited attention to empirically informed management approaches. This chapter seeks to present the evidence for acknowledging the environment in understanding and managing bullying within secure services. There is a tendency for intervention to adopt an individual approach whereby the prisoner involved as a bully and/or victim has their behaviour considered in isolation from the wider environment. It is clear that the environment is a driving feature when considering 'misconduct' in prison, regardless of how this is conceptualised. There is a formalised field of practice that has developed outside of the secure literature, namely Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) that combines a need to manage crime with a need to raise the quality of life through the built environment.
