The Role of Food in Resettlement and Rehabilitation Good Food and Good Lives

Chapter 1. Everyday Foodways, an Ingredient for Good Lives

Kevin Wong and Julie Parsons

Chapter 2. The Back on Track café: Foodways, co-production, and affective community space

Kevin Wong, Rachel Kinsella, Anton Roberts, Siobhan Pollitt, Caron Gasper, and Danielle Spruce

Chapter 3. Prison Kitchens: Institutionalising Kitchenism and Collective Cooking

Sabrina Pudda and An-Sofie Vanouche

Chapter 4. "It’s changed my behaviour and drug taking; things are changing without even realising": The transformational potential of land-based programmes.

Geraldine Brown and Geraldine Brady

Chapter 5. Serving Time: An exploration of the ‘Invisible Walls’ of rehabilitation

Anna Graham

Chapter 6. ‘Doing Commensality’, Eating Together in the Visiting Room: Families, food, and commensality

Maria Adams, Vicki Harman, Jon Garland, Charlotte Dodds, Isabel Beaumont, Amelia Hoy and Sophie Pavitt

Chapter 7. Healthy, Humane, and Rehabilitative: The role of food in prisons across Scandinavia

Lucy Vincent

Chapter 8. Greener on the Outside for Prisons (GOOP): A whole system health and justice intervention of growing food for good lives

Michelle Baybutt, Alan Farrier, and David Nicholson

Chapter 9. Community Payback-Supported Mutual Aid in Food Production and Distribution: Cooperating out of crime and food poverty?

David Nicholson

Chapter 10. Negotiation and Reconciliation of "Food Cultures" Among Catering Managers and People in Prison in Scottish Prisons

Clair Woods-Brown

Chapter 11. The Transformational Potential of Cooking and Growing for People with Custodial and Non-Custodial Sentences at LandWorks: A case study

Julie Parsons

Chapter 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

Kelsey Timler, Michelle Paquette, Cathee Porter, and Danielle Merasty

Chapter 13. Food Justice: Concluding comments

Julie Parsons and Kevin Wong

Biography

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.

“In this excellent edited book Julie Parsons and Kevin Wong explore the contribution of food and its associated practices in helping individuals to live meaningful and productive lives following their involvement with the criminal justice system. Their use of the Good Lives Model as an overarching conceptual framework is strikingly original and resonates beautifully with its insistence that effective human agency depends as much on our embodiment as a capacity for reflection and planning.”
—Professor Tony Ward, PhD, DipClinPsyc, FRSNZ, Developer of the Good Lives Model

“The Role of Food in Resettlement and Rehabilitation is a collective labour of love, curated by two outstanding scholars of lived experiences of justice. It is a groundbreaking collection about pioneers in our midst who are quietly building solidarity and making communities more just and liveable for all.”
—Professor Mary Corcoran, Keele University

“Until now, extraordinarily little has been written about leaving behind the prison’s very unusual and often impoverished ‘foodscape’ and re-entering social worlds with different possibilities and problems in which food plays a vital part. Putting it more simply, food really matters for rehabilitation and reintegration!”
—Professor Fergus McNeill, University of Glasgow