2021

Jewkes, Yvonne and Young, Alison. “Sensory Reflections on a Japanese Prison,” in Herrity, Kate; Schmidt, Bethany and Warr, Jason (eds.,). Sensory Penalities: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.

Sensory Penalities reflects an explosion in explorations of the sensory and disrupts conventional expectations of both form and focus by expanding anthropological practices and craft into the field of criminology and criminological research.

The book aims to explore what sensory aspects of experience mean to those engaged in such research, and how they can shape our criminological thinking. What are the sensory textures of these experiences? What do they tell us? How do we communicate them? Finally, what does consideration of these elements tell us about penality? More information...