The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology
Jason Warr editor Kate Herrity editor Kanupriya Sharma editor Janani Umamaheswar editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:4th Feb '26
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
Multi-layered and lavishly sensorial, this splendid volume assembles a set of provocative works that unveil intriguing facets of sensory criminology. Interlacing arguments drawn from different regions of the globe, the authors pique readers to consider how sensory rhetorics and practices crystalize how we approach justice, spatial and temporal politics, power and violence.
Professor Kelvin E.Y. Low: National University of Singapore:
Author of Sensory Anthropology: Culture and Experience in Asia (2023)
This incredibly important and absolutely stunning volume brings readers to criminology through the senses. Its editors and contributors skilfully show how foregrounding sensory experience, narratives, spatialities and temporalities invokes new moves towards necessary decolonising, and gender focused, environmental, and arts based justice. This is a must-read for all scholars and students of criminology!
Laureate Professor Sarah Pink, PhD, FASSA, Dr h.c. Technology (Malmo), Dr h.c. Philosophy (Halmstad), Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Director, Emerging Technologies Research Lab & FUTURES Hub, Leader Mobilities Focus Area and People Programme, ARC CoE for ADM+S, Monash Art, Design and Architecture & Faculty of Information Technology
Sensory criminology has generated a great deal of noise (and, indeed, feels) over the past few years, because justice has always been about gut-level emotion. This state-of-the-art collection of new research directions in this expanding field vividly demonstrates just how much we have been missing with traditional methodologies up until now.
Professor Shadd Maruna, Head of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Liverpool
ISBN: 9781032618203
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1020g
458 pages