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The Imposition of Power Through Touch: A Sensory Criminology Approach to Understanding Body Searches (2023)
Book Chapter
Warr, J. (2023). The Imposition of Power Through Touch: A Sensory Criminology Approach to Understanding Body Searches. . Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20451-7_2

One of the key principles of Sensory Criminology is that we are embodied creatures who experience the world of criminal justice sensorially. When people are captured within the criminal justice net, those processes are not only experienced via the se... Read More about The Imposition of Power Through Touch: A Sensory Criminology Approach to Understanding Body Searches.

Abstraction, belonging and comfort in the prison classroom (2022)
Journal Article
Little, R., & Warr, J. (2023). Abstraction, belonging and comfort in the prison classroom. Incarceration, 3(3), Article 26326663221142759. https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663221142759

Prison education, at the institutional and policy level, is too often about the use value of qualifications, rather than the exchange value inherent in the experience of learning. This article explores how abstract discussion can be used to resolve t... Read More about Abstraction, belonging and comfort in the prison classroom.

Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method (2022)
Book Chapter
Herrity, K., Schmidt, B. E., & Warr, J. (2022). Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method. In M. Dodge, & R. Faria (Eds.), . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18401-7_8

Heteroglossia refers to the presence of multiple voices and views – exchanges that are central to the academic project (Bakhtin, The dialogic imagination: four essays (trans. and ed: Emerson C, Holquist M). University of Texas Press, 1981; Clarke, Cr... Read More about Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method.

Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation (2022)
Journal Article
Warr, J. (2022). Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation. British Journal of Criminology, Article azac066. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac066

“You know what? You can’t be a ‘Black Man’ in prison.” Negative impositions of Blackness, grounded in the myths of Black Criminality, shape assessments of risk and rehabilitation within the scriptural economy of the contemporary prison. This creates... Read More about Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation.

Sensory Penalities: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control (2021)
Book
Herrity, K., Schmidt, B. E., & Warr, J. (2021). K. Herrity, B. E. Schmidt, & J. Warr (Eds.). Sensory Penalities: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control. Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781839097263

Sensory Penalties aims to reinvigorate a conversation about the role of sensory experience in empirical investigation. It explores the visceral, personal reflections buried within forgotten criminological field notes, to ask what privileging these se... Read More about Sensory Penalities: Exploring the Senses in Spaces of Punishment and Social Control.