RT Article T1 A leap of faith into the common byways: performing arts as a tool for ‘sensory’, ‘affective’ and ‘performative’ criminology to explore the symbolic and emotional worlds of violent crime JF Criminological encounters VO 6 IS 1 SP 129 OP 145 A1 Turhal, Özlem A2 Natali, Lorenzo 1978- LA English YR 2023 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1898857520 AB Researchers delving into the socio-criminological field and attentively exploring the most inno- vative methodologies acknowledge that, in conjunction with research methods relying on oral and writ- ten language, a new range of non-textual strategies has emerged as an alternative mode of knowledge ac- quisition. This essay proposes an exploratory approach to gather the practices of theatre and criminology together in investigating and understanding violent crime and criminals through performing arts with a sensory methodology that takes imaginative and bodily encounters as a crucial part of knowledge pro- duction. The intention is to try to establish a medium where criminologists and theatre artists mutually contribute to a platform to scrutinize crime through their ‘arts’. In this work, we suggest that exploring, experiencing and staging the phenomena of crime with the actor’s body and their art as a channel can inspire and add layers to criminology studies and teaching. NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 142-144 K1 Affective and sensory criminology K1 Affective criminology K1 method acting K1 radical interactionism K1 Theatre K1 Violent Crime DO 10.26395/CE.2023.1.10