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Exploring the role of food in enabling people with convictions to live a 'good life', this book examines the tangible ways in which the growing, cooking and eating together of food has the potential to be both transformative and small-steps incremental in facilitating desistance journeys for people with convictions.
List of contents
1. Everyday Foodways, an ingredient for good lives 2. The Back on Track café: foodways, co-production and affective community space 3. Prison Kitchens: institutionalising Kitchenism and Collective Cooking 4. 'It's changed my behaviour and drug takin; things are changing without even realising': the transformational potential of land-based programmes. 5. Serving Time: An Exploration of the 'Invisible Walls' of Rehabilitation 6. 'Doing Commensality', Eating together in the visiting room: Families, food, and commensality 7. Healthy, humane and rehabilitative: the role of food in prisons across Scandinavia 8. Greener on the Outside for Prisons (GOOP): A Whole System Health and Justice Intervention of Growing Food for Good Lives 9. Community payback-supported mutual aid in food production and distribution: cooperating out of crime and food poverty? 10. Negotiation and reconciliation of 'food cultures' among catering managers and men in custody in Scottish prisons 11. The transformational potential of 'doing' everyday foodways for people with custodial and non-custodial sentences at LandWorks- a case study. 12. What's good food got to do with It? Reflections on food as a mechanism of community building within and against the carceral state 13. Food justice - Concluding Comments
About the author
Julie Parsons is Associate Professor in Sociology and Criminology. Since 2015, she has conducted a series of funded research projects at a resettlement scheme for criminal justice-affected people, establishing the PeN project (https://penprojectlandworks.org/) there in 2016. She is passionate about the power of everyday foodways in bringing people together.
Kevin Wong is Reader in Community Justice and Associate Director, Policy Evaluation and Research Unit, Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the Editor of the
British Journal of Community Justice, Director of the Manchester International Crime and Justice Film Festival, and an Associate Member of the UK Ministry of Justice Corrections Services Accreditation and Advisory Panel.
