Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks

ISBN-13: 9781032212722 / Twarda / 2024 / 120 str.

A.E. (Ami Stearns an Assistant Professor in the Department o

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.