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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · Aug 23

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:

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Aug 18

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 Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social · Jul 31

The new Journal of Historical Criminology looks great! Looking forward to reading its contents and using with students.

Henry Yeomans @henryyeomans.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jul 31

Excited to see it nearly out in the wilds... Look out for taster posts on www.sensorycriminology.com nearer release date. Also worth noting we've used an innovative approach to collaborative writing for each of the section intros. Who says #AcademiaSky can't be fun?! #WritingCommunity #Criminology

Sensory Criminology

Exploring sensory experience of the criminological

www.sensorycriminology.com

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · Jul 31

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...

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

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jul 31

Now with contents, contributors and endorsements!!! www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

Sensory Penalities @sensorypenalities.bsky.social · Jul 28

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…

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jul 29

The saddest thing about the taser "success" is the ramping up of violence and illegitimacy that inevitably follows. We have been here, we know what the end results will be and yet we keep on with this dearth of imagination.

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

Sensory Penalities @sensorypenalities.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

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Steve Kirkwood (he/him) @stevekirkwood.bsky.social · Jul 28

Great to see this article just out in the British Journal of Criminology by my PhD student Rikki Wolkind - 'Penal Policy on Families of Imprisoned People—An Impossible Situation?' doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...

Penal Policy on Families of Imprisoned People—An Impossible Situation? Understanding Scottish Prison Policy Through Prison Staff’s Moral Sensibilities

Abstract. Scottish penal policy emphasizes the rights and well-being of the families of imprisoned people, yet reports suggest persistent gaps between disc

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jul 28

You know, I really think the #sensory brings out the thwarted artistic impulse in people we work with. Another spectacular cover with thanks to Routledge!!

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jul 28

You still have a couple of days to order the paperback at HALF PRICE from the wonderful @brisunipress.bsky.social. Here's the link: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/sound-order-...

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jul 28

📢 Coming in January, the #International Handbook in #Sensory #Criminology published with Routledge, and edited with fantastic colleagues @warrcrim.bsky.social @jananiu.bsky.social and @kanupriya.bsky.social. We'll be posting taster pieces nearer the drop at www.sensorycriminology.com

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Sensory Penalities @sensorypenalities.bsky.social · Jul 28

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

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Sensory Penalities @sensorypenalities.bsky.social · Jul 24

Dropping on Monday, a new post on the culture around lean from the wonderful Cisomo Siddoti. Meanwhile, check out the archive: sensorycriminology.com/contents/

If you're thinking about next year's #teaching, start here! #criminology #sociology #sensory #ResearchMethods

Contents

Peanut butter and jelly time: Memories of a former juvenile corrections officer Nabil Ouassini Youth Justice, Corrections, Prisons, Children, Taste, Smell The Pervasive and Unknown Effects of Senso…

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · Jul 19

Incarcerated people have more chronic medical conditions than ever

Yet healthcare behind bars is blocked by expensive copays, limited resources, & understaffing – creating a situation in which each year spent in prison takes *2 years* off an individual’s life expectancy

Graph showing that in 2016, 15% of national prison populations had 3 or more chronic conditions; compared to 12% in 2004.

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · Jul 10

The July #BritishSocietyCriminology book draw is the wonderfully written, and profoundly important, #ethnography by @kateherrity.bsky.social:

Sound, Order, and Survival: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown

Details here: www.britsoccrim.org/book-draw-2/

#Criminology
#Prison
#CriminalJustice

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jul 18

This is half price for the whole of July!!! Less than a round for all you #prison #Criminology #ResearchMethods #Ethnography #SoundStudies people. Check out the site of lovely @brisunipress.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/sound-order-... (and symposium review link below)

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · Jul 17

Here is a symposium review (4 reviewers and author response) for the wonderful Sound, Order, and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown by @kateherrity.bsky.social - now out in the British Journal of Criminology:
academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

#Prison
#SensoryCriminology

Sound, Order and Survival in Prison: The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown

The following symposium contains four reviews of Katie Herrity’s Sound, Order and Survival in Prison, winner of the 2024 British Society of Criminology’s A

https://academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjc/azaf062/8203123?login=true#no-access-message#no-access-message

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jul 3

They arrived!! Not only do they cost about the same as a round but they fit in a handbag!! One for the Mums, christmas is round the corner. Maybe on the reading lists if #Criminology #ResearchMethods #Prisons #Ethnography #Sociology of #Punishment are your thing (etc)

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Sensory Penalities @sensorypenalities.bsky.social · Jul 3

As we prepare to launch our new post from the wonderful Cosimo Sidoti on the culture around lean, check out Nabil Ouassini's sobering reminiscence of being a juvenile #Corrections officer, prompted by peanut butter and jelly: sensorycriminology.com/2025/06/09/p...

Peanut Butter Jelly Time: Memories of a Former Juvenile Correctional Officer

The unit always had problems with flickering lights that made the darkness thick. As our eyes adjust to the dark, the musty walls and rusted iron bars remind us of the countless children and office…

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · Jul 1

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"Its a deal, its a steal, its the sale of the f***ing century!"

As I have noted elsewhere this book is one of the most important #Prison ethnographies to have been written in the last 25 years.

In paperback and with the discount in July only its £13.99 - a proper bargain!
#Criminology

Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 #Criminology #book discount alert!! #Sound #Order and #Survival in #prison goes paperback in mid-July, and to celebrate the wonderful @brisunipress.bsky.social are cutting the price in half!! Bookmark and check the link next month for your copy!! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/sound-order-...

Sound, Order and Survival in Prison

Sound, Order and Survival in Prison - The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown; The soundscape of prison life is that of constant clangs, bangs and jangles. What is the significance of this cacophonous...

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jul 1

And now it has a cover!!!... Nearer the launch I'll be writing very short synopsis of the dazzling contributions bringing #musicology #sound #SoundArt #Arts #Criminology into conversation with each other: www.bloomsbury.com/us/sound-and...

Sound and Detention

This book tunes in to some of the many ways in which sound-and its absence-can function as a source of connection, isolation, harm, restoration, power, control…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social · Jun 30

"Its a deal, its a steal, its the sale of the f***ing century!"

As I have noted elsewhere this book is one of the most important #Prison ethnographies to have been written in the last 25 years.

In paperback and with the discount in July only its £13.99 - a proper bargain!
#Criminology
#CJS

Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jun 30

Just a timely reminder that #Sound #Order and #Survival is now coming out in paperback and half price for the WHOLE OF JULY!!!! Get in all you #criminology, #prisons, #ethnography, #sound and #ResearchMethods peeps!

Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 #Criminology #book discount alert!! #Sound #Order and #Survival in #prison goes paperback in mid-July, and to celebrate the wonderful @brisunipress.bsky.social are cutting the price in half!! Bookmark and check the link next month for your copy!! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/sound-order-...

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Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jun 30

Just a timely reminder that #Sound #Order and #Survival is now coming out in paperback and half price for the WHOLE OF JULY!!!! Get in all you #criminology, #prisons, #ethnography, #sound and #ResearchMethods peeps!

Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social · Jun 11

📢 #Criminology #book discount alert!! #Sound #Order and #Survival in #prison goes paperback in mid-July, and to celebrate the wonderful @brisunipress.bsky.social are cutting the price in half!! Bookmark and check the link next month for your copy!! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/sound-order-...

Sound, Order and Survival in Prison

Sound, Order and Survival in Prison - The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown; The soundscape of prison life is that of constant clangs, bangs and jangles. What is the significance of this cacophonous...

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

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