RT Article
T1 ‘All Knowledge Begins with the Senses'1: Towards a Sensory Criminology
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 1
SP 3
OP 23
A1 McClanahan, Bill
A1 South, Nigel
A2 South, Nigel
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/168755238X
AB Visual criminology has established itself as a site of criminological innovation. Its ascendance, though, highlights ways in which the ‘ocularcentrism' of the social sciences is reproduced in criminology. We respond, arguing for attention to the totality of sensorial modalities. Outlining the possible contours of a criminology concerned with smell, taste, sound and touch—along with the visual—the paper describes moments in which the sensory intersects with various phenomena of crime, harm, justice and power. Noting the primacy of the sensorial in understanding environmental harm, we describe an explicitly sensory green criminology while also suggesting the ways that heightened criminological attention to the non-visual senses might uncover new sites and modes of knowledge and a more richly affective criminology.
K1 Sensory
K1 Senses
K1 Green criminology
K1 Visual criminology
K1 Ocularcentrism
DO 10.1093/bjc/azz052