Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks provides an innovative exploration of U.S.-based prison cookbooks using a narrative criminological approach.
The book relies on the voices of prison cookbook authors to argue that cookbook narratives are a form of communication with the free world. Further, the book undertakes thematic analyses of prison cookery and narratives to illuminate the intersections of incarceration with abolition, gender, literacy, and dehumanization. The reader is introduced to the power and symbolism of cell made food, as well as the agency and resourcefulness of those who cook, bake, and write about food behind bars.
Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks is of interest to instructors of courses covering the sociology of food, criminology, human geography, and anthropology. The book is also appropriate for prison and probation services, health organizations, and anyone engaged in the criminal-legal system, abolition movements, or social reform.
ISBN: | 9781032212722 |
Publication date: | 24th April 2024 |
Author: | A E Stearns |
Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 120 pages |
Series: | Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice |
Genres: |
Health & Fitness Sentencing and punishment Gender studies: women and girls Social and cultural anthropology Penology and punishment Personal and public health / health education Criminal justice law Legal aspects of criminology Sociology |