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.
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
The City That Won’t Let You Sit: Sensory Criminology and Urban Pain
…Western cities govern houselessness through what I conceptualize as deliberate nociception. There is a pervasive, intentional production of sensory pain that functions as a mechanism of regulation. This governance is not primarily enacted at the level of spectacular punishment, but through mundane, everyday encounters that keep people on their feet, in their shoes, and on the…
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