Kate Herrity
@kateherrity.bsky.social
Criminologist with a focus on the sensory and ethnography in prisons. Also running @SensoryPenalities to share exciting new material from www.sensorycriminology.com Author of Sound, Order and Survival in Prison. All about supportive academia
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If you are interested in #SensoryCriminology and #Sensory studies in #Criminology, #Victimology, #CriminalJustice, and #Zemiology then see this:
Blog by @kateherrity.bsky.social: Introducing the new Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology
sensorycriminology.com/2025/11/26/i...
Blog by @kateherrity.bsky.social: Introducing the new Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology
sensorycriminology.com/2025/11/26/i...
International Handbook of Sensory Criminology Series: 1
This short post marks the opening of a series dedicated to discussing each of the organising themes of the Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology, in preparation for its launch. Ea…
sensorycriminology.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
If you are interested in #SensoryCriminology and #Sensory studies in #Criminology, #Victimology, #CriminalJustice, and #Zemiology then see this:
Blog by @kateherrity.bsky.social: Introducing the new Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology
sensorycriminology.com/2025/11/26/i...
Blog by @kateherrity.bsky.social: Introducing the new Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology
sensorycriminology.com/2025/11/26/i...
New blog post discussing our forthcoming International Handbook on #Sensory #Criminology. We're leaving the comments open to encourage discussion and engagement - particularly from students. The first in the series #AcademicSky #CrimSky: sensorycriminology.com/2025/11/26/i...
International Handbook of Sensory Criminology Series: 1
This short post marks the opening of a series dedicated to discussing each of the organising themes of the Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology, in preparation for its launch. Ea…
sensorycriminology.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
New blog post discussing our forthcoming International Handbook on #Sensory #Criminology. We're leaving the comments open to encourage discussion and engagement - particularly from students. The first in the series #AcademicSky #CrimSky: sensorycriminology.com/2025/11/26/i...
Hey all #AcademicSky, #Criminology, join us at 1pm tomorrow to talk all things #sensory and #sound in #prison
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New Directions: The Senses in Prison - With Dr Kate Herrity
Join us for an eye-opening discussion with Dr Kate Herrity, exploring the sensory experiences of prisoners and its impact.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hey all #AcademicSky, #Criminology, join us at 1pm tomorrow to talk all things #sensory and #sound in #prison
www.eventbrite.com/e/new-direct...
www.eventbrite.com/e/new-direct...
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📣 Event alert!
Keeping Campsfield Closed:
Join us on Monday 17 at 18:00 on the reopening of Oxford's local immigration removal centre. We will have a screening of Removed (2025) and a discussion with us, @aviddetention.bsky.social and @closecampsfield.bsky.social
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Keeping Campsfield Closed:
Join us on Monday 17 at 18:00 on the reopening of Oxford's local immigration removal centre. We will have a screening of Removed (2025) and a discussion with us, @aviddetention.bsky.social and @closecampsfield.bsky.social
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📣 Event alert!
Keeping Campsfield Closed:
Join us on Monday 17 at 18:00 on the reopening of Oxford's local immigration removal centre. We will have a screening of Removed (2025) and a discussion with us, @aviddetention.bsky.social and @closecampsfield.bsky.social
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Keeping Campsfield Closed:
Join us on Monday 17 at 18:00 on the reopening of Oxford's local immigration removal centre. We will have a screening of Removed (2025) and a discussion with us, @aviddetention.bsky.social and @closecampsfield.bsky.social
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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🚨Last chance to check out some of our brilliant students' presentations at the ASC conference at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C., this afternoon (Friday, Nov. 14)! #ASCinDC25 #UNOSCCJ🤘
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🚨Last chance to check out some of our brilliant students' presentations at the ASC conference at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C., this afternoon (Friday, Nov. 14)! #ASCinDC25 #UNOSCCJ🤘
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Hi all, we're gearing up for the launch of @routledgebooks.bsky.social International Handbook of #Sensory #Criminology. I'm thinking of using comments to generate discussion on a series of blog posts to talk about its fabulous contents as an experiment. Anyone with experience? #AcademicSky
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Hi all, we're gearing up for the launch of @routledgebooks.bsky.social International Handbook of #Sensory #Criminology. I'm thinking of using comments to generate discussion on a series of blog posts to talk about its fabulous contents as an experiment. Anyone with experience? #AcademicSky
@cambcriminology.bsky.social Glad to see you here! I really think we can revitalise the conversation and generate excitement for ideas on this platform, it's just a bit of effort to get #CrimSky going...
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
@cambcriminology.bsky.social Glad to see you here! I really think we can revitalise the conversation and generate excitement for ideas on this platform, it's just a bit of effort to get #CrimSky going...
I really enjoyed this new #Incarceration article by Dave McDonald on the #sensory afterlives of child #institutionalisation: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Broad #academicSky interest but also #sensory #criminology
Broad #academicSky interest but also #sensory #criminology
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November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I really enjoyed this new #Incarceration article by Dave McDonald on the #sensory afterlives of child #institutionalisation: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Broad #academicSky interest but also #sensory #criminology
Broad #academicSky interest but also #sensory #criminology
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New: We analyzed prison rules and sanctions, and gathered accounts from incarcerated people, to reveal how DOCs use disciplinary policies to punish people for menstruating. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/11...
Menstruation as misconduct: How prisons punish people for having their periods
Our analysis of prison rules and sanctions across all fifty states and the federal system — as well as accounts of incarcerated people — reveal ...
www.prisonpolicy.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New: We analyzed prison rules and sanctions, and gathered accounts from incarcerated people, to reveal how DOCs use disciplinary policies to punish people for menstruating. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/11...
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📌What does it mean to research responsibly in spaces of displacement & crisis?
My new blog, 'Research and Responsibility: Lessons from Lesvos', reflects on ethics, extractivism & epistemic colonialism in border research. www.mdx.ac.uk/mdx-voices/r...
My new blog, 'Research and Responsibility: Lessons from Lesvos', reflects on ethics, extractivism & epistemic colonialism in border research. www.mdx.ac.uk/mdx-voices/r...
Research and Responsibility: Lessons from Lesvos
Dr Evgenia Iliadou a Visiting Fellow at the Middlesex University Graduate School shares research about the refugee crisis in Lesvos
www.mdx.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📌What does it mean to research responsibly in spaces of displacement & crisis?
My new blog, 'Research and Responsibility: Lessons from Lesvos', reflects on ethics, extractivism & epistemic colonialism in border research. www.mdx.ac.uk/mdx-voices/r...
My new blog, 'Research and Responsibility: Lessons from Lesvos', reflects on ethics, extractivism & epistemic colonialism in border research. www.mdx.ac.uk/mdx-voices/r...
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I wonder which (Blair Institute/Ellison connected) SpAd came up with this particular piece of #TechnoUtopianism?
Timpson's willingness to impose predatory tech surveillance systems on a #prison population who cannot give #DataConsent is disturbing!
#CriminalJustice
#Criminology
Timpson's willingness to impose predatory tech surveillance systems on a #prison population who cannot give #DataConsent is disturbing!
#CriminalJustice
#Criminology
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says Lord Timpson
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I wonder which (Blair Institute/Ellison connected) SpAd came up with this particular piece of #TechnoUtopianism?
Timpson's willingness to impose predatory tech surveillance systems on a #prison population who cannot give #DataConsent is disturbing!
#CriminalJustice
#Criminology
Timpson's willingness to impose predatory tech surveillance systems on a #prison population who cannot give #DataConsent is disturbing!
#CriminalJustice
#Criminology
Hey #criminology, #sociology, #sensory, #prison #AcademicSky #Crimsky - I'm talking as part of the BSC prisons research network relaunch seminar series on Tuesday 25th, 1pm on "The Senses in Prison: Bridging Research, Policy and Practice". Here's the link: www.eventbrite.com/e/new-direct...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Hey #criminology, #sociology, #sensory, #prison #AcademicSky #Crimsky - I'm talking as part of the BSC prisons research network relaunch seminar series on Tuesday 25th, 1pm on "The Senses in Prison: Bridging Research, Policy and Practice". Here's the link: www.eventbrite.com/e/new-direct...
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Have you been thinking about giving the old #agency and #structure binary a bit of a disruption #Criminology, #SocialTheory, #Geography, #UrbanStudies? Wondering how we can give it a rethink beyond #confinement and mix it up a bit? FEAR NOT, THIS IS COMING SOON: www.routledge.com/Agency-Beyon...
Agency Beyond Confinement: Rethinking the Relationship Between Agency and Structure in the Contemporary World
What does it mean to be confined—and what forms of life, resistance, and care emerge in response? Agency Beyond Confinement rethinks the social life of confinement by refusing binaries: structure vs. ...
www.routledge.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Have you been thinking about giving the old #agency and #structure binary a bit of a disruption #Criminology, #SocialTheory, #Geography, #UrbanStudies? Wondering how we can give it a rethink beyond #confinement and mix it up a bit? FEAR NOT, THIS IS COMING SOON: www.routledge.com/Agency-Beyon...
I really think if we all pull together, we can make bluesky what academic twitter was before they mangled it up? We need to get more proactive though (myself included). Big up early careers and one anothers' students, get excited by new works... #Criminology, we can do this...
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I really think if we all pull together, we can make bluesky what academic twitter was before they mangled it up? We need to get more proactive though (myself included). Big up early careers and one anothers' students, get excited by new works... #Criminology, we can do this...
Have you been thinking about giving the old #agency and #structure binary a bit of a disruption #Criminology, #SocialTheory, #Geography, #UrbanStudies? Wondering how we can give it a rethink beyond #confinement and mix it up a bit? FEAR NOT, THIS IS COMING SOON: www.routledge.com/Agency-Beyon...
Agency Beyond Confinement: Rethinking the Relationship Between Agency and Structure in the Contemporary World
What does it mean to be confined—and what forms of life, resistance, and care emerge in response? Agency Beyond Confinement rethinks the social life of confinement by refusing binaries: structure vs. ...
www.routledge.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Have you been thinking about giving the old #agency and #structure binary a bit of a disruption #Criminology, #SocialTheory, #Geography, #UrbanStudies? Wondering how we can give it a rethink beyond #confinement and mix it up a bit? FEAR NOT, THIS IS COMING SOON: www.routledge.com/Agency-Beyon...
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Our next S&CS seminar is taking place tomorrow (22nd October, 3.30–5.00) in Room 432, St Andrews Bldg. We’re really pleased to be welcoming @kateherrity.bsky.social. She will be exploring the sensory aspects of the ways in which time is experienced in the context of imprisonment.
October 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Our next S&CS seminar is taking place tomorrow (22nd October, 3.30–5.00) in Room 432, St Andrews Bldg. We’re really pleased to be welcoming @kateherrity.bsky.social. She will be exploring the sensory aspects of the ways in which time is experienced in the context of imprisonment.
If you're around lovely Glasgow, I'm be chatting to the lovely SCS folk!! (#Sound, #Prisons, #Criminology, #Anthropology, #Sociology, a bit of #Music and even a mention of David O'Doherty)
Our next S&CS seminar is taking place tomorrow (22nd October, 3.30–5.00) in Room 432, St Andrews Bldg. We’re really pleased to be welcoming @kateherrity.bsky.social. She will be exploring the sensory aspects of the ways in which time is experienced in the context of imprisonment.
October 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If you're around lovely Glasgow, I'm be chatting to the lovely SCS folk!! (#Sound, #Prisons, #Criminology, #Anthropology, #Sociology, a bit of #Music and even a mention of David O'Doherty)
Just came across this!! New edition of the #senses and #society edited by David Howes and Abou Farman - www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfss20/c...
Anyone teaching #Research #Methods in #socialScience or #Criminology - get in! Also, that is one exciting book, reviewed by the stellar Andrew Kettler.
Anyone teaching #Research #Methods in #socialScience or #Criminology - get in! Also, that is one exciting book, reviewed by the stellar Andrew Kettler.
The Senses and Society
Multisensory Ethnography and Synaesthetics. Volume 20, Issue 2 of The Senses and Society
www.tandfonline.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Just came across this!! New edition of the #senses and #society edited by David Howes and Abou Farman - www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfss20/c...
Anyone teaching #Research #Methods in #socialScience or #Criminology - get in! Also, that is one exciting book, reviewed by the stellar Andrew Kettler.
Anyone teaching #Research #Methods in #socialScience or #Criminology - get in! Also, that is one exciting book, reviewed by the stellar Andrew Kettler.
A few #sensory things for #criminology and #sociology now we're in to term. Don't forget www.sensorycriminology.com for your teaching needs - and do think about contributing.
Also, a really thoughtful symposium review of "Sound, Order and Survival" - academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...
Also, a really thoughtful symposium review of "Sound, Order and Survival" - academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...
Sensory Criminology
Exploring sensory experience of the criminological
www.sensorycriminology.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A few #sensory things for #criminology and #sociology now we're in to term. Don't forget www.sensorycriminology.com for your teaching needs - and do think about contributing.
Also, a really thoughtful symposium review of "Sound, Order and Survival" - academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...
Also, a really thoughtful symposium review of "Sound, Order and Survival" - academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...
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For those in #Criminology, #Anthropology, #Sociology, #Law, and #CriminalJustice studies here is @kateherrity.bsky.social talking about her #Ethnography of a mens local #prison.
Profoundly important for understanding how power, order, sound, time, and the senses shape a prison
#SensoryCriminology
Profoundly important for understanding how power, order, sound, time, and the senses shape a prison
#SensoryCriminology
Kate Herrity, author of 'Sound, Order and Survival in Prison', tells the story of a year spent with a #UKPrison community, bringing its social world vividly to life for the first time through aural ethnography.
Listen here:
Listen here:
Kate Herrity, "Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown" (Bristol UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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August 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
For those in #Criminology, #Anthropology, #Sociology, #Law, and #CriminalJustice studies here is @kateherrity.bsky.social talking about her #Ethnography of a mens local #prison.
Profoundly important for understanding how power, order, sound, time, and the senses shape a prison
#SensoryCriminology
Profoundly important for understanding how power, order, sound, time, and the senses shape a prison
#SensoryCriminology
Just in time for #Teaching and #Readinglists for next year, or for those interested in the book: New podcast talking about #Sound, #Order and #Survival in #Prison with the wonderful @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #CrimSky #AcademicSky newbooksnetwork.com/sound-order-...
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Kate Herrity, "Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown" (Bristol UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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August 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Just in time for #Teaching and #Readinglists for next year, or for those interested in the book: New podcast talking about #Sound, #Order and #Survival in #Prison with the wonderful @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #CrimSky #AcademicSky newbooksnetwork.com/sound-order-...
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The new Journal of Historical Criminology looks great! Looking forward to reading its contents and using with students.
It's here! The Journal of Historical Criminology volume 1 issue 1 now available! Congratulations to editors Iain Channing and Alex Tepperman. Looks excellent - excited to read more. journalofhistoricalcriminology.pubpub.org/jhc-2025-vol...
JHC (2025) Vol 1, Iss 1
journalofhistoricalcriminology.pubpub.org
July 31, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The new Journal of Historical Criminology looks great! Looking forward to reading its contents and using with students.
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Hey #Criminology
It lives!
29 chapters. 8 sections. 50+ authors. #ECRs to veterans. Wide range of themes/topics
It's been a labour of over 2 years, but it's forthcoming (release in January 2026)
#CriminalJustice
#Victimology
#Zemiology
#SensoryCriminology
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
It lives!
29 chapters. 8 sections. 50+ authors. #ECRs to veterans. Wide range of themes/topics
It's been a labour of over 2 years, but it's forthcoming (release in January 2026)
#CriminalJustice
#Victimology
#Zemiology
#SensoryCriminology
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Criminology
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, jus...
www.routledge.com
July 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Hey #Criminology
It lives!
29 chapters. 8 sections. 50+ authors. #ECRs to veterans. Wide range of themes/topics
It's been a labour of over 2 years, but it's forthcoming (release in January 2026)
#CriminalJustice
#Victimology
#Zemiology
#SensoryCriminology
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
It lives!
29 chapters. 8 sections. 50+ authors. #ECRs to veterans. Wide range of themes/topics
It's been a labour of over 2 years, but it's forthcoming (release in January 2026)
#CriminalJustice
#Victimology
#Zemiology
#SensoryCriminology
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Now with contents, contributors and endorsements!!! www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
July 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Now with contents, contributors and endorsements!!! www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
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Don't miss this fascinating post on lean culture from Cosimo Sidoti! Thinking about next year's #teaching? One for anyone looking at #subculturalTheory #Drugs #Music #Criminology #ResearchMethods #Sociology #SubstanceUse - #AcademicSky #CrimSky
Our fantastic new post for #Sensory #Criminology from Cosimo Sidoti exploring lean culture and what we can learn from #socialMedia -centred #ResearchMethods: sensorycriminology.com/2025/07/28/g...
Getting into the purple drank: An aesthetic and sensory perspective on lean culture
The defining characteristic of the Chopped and Screwed sonic aesthetic – blending with the experience of lean – lies in its ability to distort the listener’s perception of time. This te…
sensorycriminology.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Don't miss this fascinating post on lean culture from Cosimo Sidoti! Thinking about next year's #teaching? One for anyone looking at #subculturalTheory #Drugs #Music #Criminology #ResearchMethods #Sociology #SubstanceUse - #AcademicSky #CrimSky