The Role of Food in Resettlement and Rehabilitation: Good Food and Good Lives (1) (Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice)

By: Julie Parsons and Kevin Wong

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Synopsis: Exploring the role of food in enabling people with convictions to live a “good life”, this book examines the tangible ways in which growing food, cooking, and eating together has the potential to be both transformative and small steps incremental in facilitating desistance journeys for people with convictions.At its most reductive, food sustains us physically; it’s the fuel which keeps us alive. Of course, emotionally, culturally, and socially it does more than that. This edited book addresses an under-researched area of resettlement and rehabilitation which has real-world application to policy and practice in criminal justice and related areas such as mental health, physical health, employment, and education. Importantly, given the relatability of food growing, cooking, and eating to the wider public, it offers opportunities to connect the desistance journeys and lives of people with convictions to the wider public.The Role of Food in Resettlement and Rehabilitation will be of great interest to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, social work, and food studies. It is also important reading for government policymakers in criminal justice and health care, social policy, and criminal justice practitioners, including prison governors, social workers, and providers of services for people with convictions in custody and community.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 252 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040365496
Related ISBNs:: 9781032448480, 9781040365410, 9781003374213
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 07/16/25
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Julie Parsons and Kevin Wong
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Cooking, Food and Wine, Health, Mind and Body, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Julie Parsons
Edited by:: Kevin Wong