Sensory Criminology is a creative space to explore sensory experience of criminological concerns.
This blog is designed to accompany and extend themes and ideas introduced in our edited collection “Sensory penalities: exploring the sensory in spaces of punishment and social control” (Bingley: Emerald). Now available: https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Sensory-Penalities/?K=9781839097270 – hardback released 8th February 2021.
Coming to one’s senses: knowledge production, situatedness, and vulnerability in criminological interview work.
…but they had seen my raw vulnerability first. They had been given evidence that I was putting myself in a complex physical situation – meeting with unknown men in areas I’d never been, their faces forever a blur, just like the pavement I would have to navigate – in order to listen to their stories.…
Sound and Detention: Writing about music, sound and confinement
Music becomes his bridge, a tether between displacement and possibility, a fragile articulation of belonging in a world that refuses to accommodate him. But sound is never neutral. It carries histories of violence, it registers absence, and it disrupts imposed silences
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