"The Routledge International Handbook Of Sensory Criminology | Criminology & Criminal Justice

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.|The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology | Criminology & Criminal Justice