The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology
The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology

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The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology

Edited by Kate Herrity · Kanupriya Sharma · Janani Umamaheswar · Jason Warr
Routledge February 2026

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ISBN-13
9781032618203
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
February 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology reimagines what criminology can become when we take the senses seriously. Centring the sensory as fundamental to the experience of harm, justice, and resistance, this groundbreaking volume brings together 29 chapters from scholars across disciplines, career stages, and geographies. Together, they explore how power is heard, felt, inhaled, touched, and moved through, from courtrooms and prisons to museums, marine ecologies, colonial archives, transitional spaces, high-crime zones and urban streets.

The Handbook opens up new pathways for criminological inquiry, offering rich, situated analysis of how the sensory shapes and is shaped by structures of criminalisation, exclusion, and survival. Contributors engage themes including punishment, victimhood, environmental harm, archival memory, decolonial justice, and innovative methodologies. Rather than offering a prescriptive vision, the volume offers a provocation: to expand the criminological imagination and embrace new ways of knowing, sensing, and intervening.

This Handbook is an essential reading for students, scholars and early career researchers in criminology, sociology, law, anthropology, geography, gender studies, politics, and cultural studies, as well as those interested in decolonial approaches, sensory methods, and interdisciplinary justice research.

Table of Contents

Sensory Criminology: Expanding our Imagination
Kate Herrity, Kanupriya Sharma, Janani Umamaheswar, Jason Warr

Section 1: Sensory Politics of Violence
Sensing Violence: Traces, Echoes, and Afterlives
Liam Gillespie, Kanupriya Sharma and Hannah Wilkinson
1. Listening to Donald Trump’s Voice: ‘Fight like hell!’, the Capitol Hill Riots, and the Spectre of Teleprompter Trump
Liam Gillespie
2. ‘SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH’: Sound, Silence and Gender-Based Violence
Amanda Holt and Sian Lewis
3.The Sound of Violence
Colm Walsh
4.War, Colonialism and the Senses: “You can’t unsee or unhear that shit”
Hannah Wilkinson

Section 2: Coloniality, Imperialism, and the Senses
Recognising Abhorrent Legacies: Lessons for Sensory Criminology
Onwubiko Agozino, Rose Boswell, Nontyatyambo Pearl Dastile, Sharon Gabie, Andrew Kettler, Macpherson Uchenna Nnam, Jessica Leigh Thornton, and Jason Warr
5. Doing Justice Differently: A Pan-Africanist Perspective
Nontyatyambo Pearl Dastile, Abiodun Omotayo Oladejo, and Macpherson Uchenna Nnam
6. “I’ll Make You Shit!”: Olfactory Othering and the Necropolitics of Colonial Prisons
Andrew Kettler
7. The Sensory Aspects of Abhorrent Heritage in South Africa
Rosabelle Boswell, Jessica Leigh Thornton, Sharon Gabie, Zanele Hartmann, and Ismail Lagardien
8. Decolonizing Sensory Rhetorics and Activism in Africana Prison Memoirs
Onwubiko Agozino

Section 3: Sensory, Narrative, and the Arts
Reimagining Justice through Creative Encounters and Sensory Knowing
Glenda Acito, Lucy Cathcart Frödén, Fangyi Li, Lorenzo Natali, Nabil Ouassini, Kanupriya Sharma, Ozlem Turhal, and Raghavi Viswanath
9. Black light. Drawing, Music and Theatre as Sensory Practices in the Encounter Between Incarcerated People and University Students
Lorenzo Natali , Glenda Acito, and Ozlem Turhal
10. Crackle and Flicker: Music and Multisensory Experiences in Prison
Lucy Cathcart Frödén and Áine Mangaoang
11. Seeing Museums as Criminological Spaces: An Affective Tale of Two Museum Visits
Raghavi Viswanath and Fangyi Li
12. ‘Verily in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest:’ Sensory Criminology, Islamic Auditory Traditions, and the Rehabilitation of Offenders
Nabil Ouassini and Anwar Ouassini

Section 4: Sensing (In)Justice
From the Courtroom to the Street: The Sensory Dimensions of Racialised (In)justice
Barbara Becnel, Dale Spencer, and Jason Warr
13. Conflicting Senses, Victims, and the Courtroom: the case of Cindy Gladue
Marcus Sibley and Dale Spencer
14. The Sensory Effects of Racial Profiling in Berlin’s KBO’s.
Melody Howse
15. Racialized Punishment and the Sensorial Symbolism of Death Row for America’s Black Gangster Class
Barbara Becnel

Section 5: Environmental Harm and the Senses
“The Way the Soil Crumbled in Their Hands": Sensing Environmental Harms
Amy Gibbons, Ascensión García Ruiz, Janani Umamaheswar, and Aysegul Yildirim
16. Seeing and Sensing Environmental Harm: The Death of the British Countryside
Amy Gibbons
17. The Sensory Ocean: Exploring Noise and Light Pollution as Blue Crime
Ascension Garcia-Ruiz
18. Sensitising Criminology to Experiences of Environmental Noise
Aysegul Yildirim

Section 6: Space, Place, and the Sensory
Vivid and Vibrant Criminological Landscapes: Sense and Space
Kevin Barnes-Ceeney, Priti Mohandas, and Janani Umamaheswar
19. Dispossessed Realities: Houselessness, and Spatial Violence
Luisa T. Schneider
20. Release from Prison Day
Kevin Barnes-Ceeney and Victoria Espinoza
21. "I can't breathe" Housing, Masculinities and Violence in Cape Town, South Africa
Priti Mohandas
22. Scrutinising Social Control in the City through the Senses
Anna Di Ronco and Nina Peršak

Section 7: Time, Justice, and the Sensory
Beholding Justice and Punishment
Sneha Bhambri, Eamonn Carrabine, Kate Herrity, Arta Jalili-Idrissi and Jason Warr
23. Sitting, Seeing and Getting Lost: The Sensory Aesthetics of Latvia’s Women’s Prison
Arta Jalili-Idrisi
24. Time, Temporality, and Chronoception
Jason Warr
25. It’s a Circus: The Production of Domestic Violence Proceedings in Lower Courts of Mumbai, India
Sneha Bhambri
26. Beholding Justice: Images of Punishment in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Eamonn Carrabine

Section 8: Sensory Methods
“They Are Not Like You and I”: Sensory Methods
Briony Anderson, Kate Herrity, Sarah Kingston and Mark Wood
27. Sense and Insensibility: How Technologies Invite and Invisibilise Harm
Briony Anderson, Mark A Wood, Jackson Wood, Will Arpke-Wales, and Flynn Pervan
28. Audio Criminology: Broadening the Criminological Imagination Through the Use of Audio Methods
Sarah Kingston
29. ‘Still feels like jail’: Sensing Danger, Bleakness and Friendship in a State-Run Home For Boys
Mahuya Bandyopadhyay, Aishwarya Chandran and Sanjukta Manna
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