Hungry on the inside
Prison food as concrete and symbolic punishment in a women’s prison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9744942 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy B Smoyer (0000-0002-6665-5945, Southern Connecticut State University, corresponding author), Giza Lopes (New York State Office of Indigent Legal Services, USA) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 240-255 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Punishment & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-4745 • E-ISSN: 1741-3095 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1462474516665605 |
| OpenAlex | W2510829863 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
| References cited | 32 |
Women’s perceptions of the prison experience and the punishing dimensions of their confinement are under-examined. To expand knowledge in this area, Sexton’s theory of penal consciousness is used to analyze formerly incarcerated women’s narratives about prison food. This analysis builds understanding about the lived experience of incarceration by explicating one dimension of prisoners’ understandings and perceptions of punishment. Women’s narratives describe both concrete and symbolic punishments associated with food. Participants spoke about poorly designed, sloppy food systems that left them feeling uncared for, ignored, frustrated, and humiliated. Women articulate experiences of hunger that reflect both a deprivation of adequate food and a rationing of humane attentions. These punishing perceptions may inhibit the efforts of social service and health providers to engage incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women in care. In contrast, exceptional participant narratives about positive, non-punishing food experiences suggest that ameliorated food systems could improve the lived experience of incarceration and promote the engagement in services that is needed to improve the outcomes of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women
Consciousness · Criminology · Feeling · Lived experience · Mass incarceration · Narrative · Perception · Prison · Punishment (psychology · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology
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Food and penal legitimacy in women's prisons
The Pains of Imprisonment and Contemporary Prisoner Culture in Canada
A Taste of Prison
Food and the prison environment
Sensory Processing Patterns of Women in a Reintegration Facility
Naturalizing Coercion
Billions Served
Deception by Design
Respect and Criminal Justice
Fronteiras corpóreas e incorporações prisionais
Prison, technology, and consumption
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“When We Come to Your Class … We Feel Not Like We're in Prison”
The Embodiment of Contempt
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Violations of the right to food during deprivation of liberty
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Calories, commerce, and culture
Fleeting civilities
Food in correctional facilities
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Introduction
Making time for food when ‘doing time’; how enhanced status prisoners counter the indignity of prison foodways
Women in Prisons
Consequences of mental and physical health for reentry and recidivism
Avoiding the Runaround
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Hunger strikes and differential consciousness
Carceral nutrition
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Inside Out
Ramen Politics
Discipline and Punish
Why People Obey the Law
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Women in Prison
Women and Punishment
Punishing the Poor
Prisons and their Moral Performance
Female Inmates with Diabetes
Dealing food
Dining in
Good and Healthy
The hidden food
Penal subjectivities
Depth, weight, tightness
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Feeding Relationships
Women's Perceptions of the Prison Environment
Gender Responsive Treatment and Services in Correctional Settings
Acceptance or refusal of convenience food in present-day prison
The Society of Captives
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Legitimacy and Order in Prisons
Punishment and Pleasure
| Unique citing works | 49 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 49 |