Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks

Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks provides an innovative exploration of U.S.-based prison cookbooks using a narrative criminological approach.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 PB&J is the New Gruel
Chapter 2 America's Human Recycling Centers
Chapter 3 Jailhouse Martha Stewart
Chapter 4 The System Tries to Kill You in Many Ways
Chapter 5 A Little Closer to Your World of Understanding
Conclusion: I Can't Go Back
Appendix A: Methodology
Appendix B: Table of Cookbooks

About the author

A.E. Stearns is an assistant professor of criminology at Coastal Carolina University where she teaches sociology, criminology, gender, hate crimes, and social problems. She publishes and presents on prison foodways, peer support and hope among jailed women, and experiences of social isolation in populations incarcerated long-term. Her mission is to facilitate the public's empathy for and understanding of incarcerated individuals. She has volunteered in jails and prisons across the south. Stearns serves on a community board that amplifies incarcerated voices and she teaches a college course inside the local jail.

Product details

• Authors: A.E. Stearns, A.e. (Ami Stearns an Assistant Professor Stearns
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032212739
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221273-9
• No. of pages: 98
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, COOKING / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Personal & public health, Social and cultural anthropology, Legal aspects of criminology, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Penology and punishment, Prisons, Sentencing & punishment, Sentencing and punishment, Criminal justice law, Personal and public health / health education, Criminology: legal aspects