Food justice

In this chapter, we conclude the collection with a focus on the Good Lives Model (Willis and Ward 2023) and a call for food justice. We provide a table that identifies the themes that emerged from the chapters as secondary/instrumental goods and map these across to the GLM's primary/prudential goods. As noted, the title of this book bears witness to an alliterative pleasure but also to the proposition to be explored within its covers that food, and specifically good food, can: (a) provide sustenance for an individual's desistance journey, however back and forth (Glaser 1964) or nomadic (Phillips 2017); and (b) support a “good life”. The contributors to this collection provide evidence of a range of ways in which food, whether it is growing, eating, or cooking, makes sociality possible for criminal justice-impacted people. This is important as desistance is a social as well as an individual matter. Finally, we include a call for food justice across the prison estate in England and Wales because, as Mary Corcoran reminds us in her preface to this collection, food justice is a foundational measure of access to all other forms of justice.