Winner of the British Society of Criminology Annual Book Prize 2024.The soundscape of prison life is that of constant clangs, bangs and jangles. What is the significance of this cacophonous din to those who live and work with it? This book tells the story of a year spent with a UK prison community, bringing its social world vividly to life for the first time through aural ethnography.Kate Herrity’s sensory criminology challenges current thinking on how power is experienced by the imprisoned and the lasting effects of incarceration for all who spend time in these environments.
Kate Herrity is the Mellon-Kings Research Fellow in Punishment at the University of Cambridge.
1. Just Landed2. What Are You Hearing, Right Now?3. Warp and Weft4. “He’s Never Even Had a Magnum!”5. Weft and Warp6. A Night Inside7. Talk to Me8. Kackerlackas9. A Kettle, a Penguin and a Word Arrow10. Emotional Contagion11. Arrhythmia12. Polyrhythmia13. Jingle Jangle14. Disentangling Power and Order15. Learning the “Everyday Tune”16. Listening To Power17. Singing Frogs, Looping the Slam18. The Auld Triangle19. The Hustle and Bustle20. Phasing21. Polyrhythmia Revisited22. Bells, Whistles, Ships and Prisons23. Shipping Out24. References
'The book has laid a foundation for future work on penal settings, as well as transitions from community to prison and from prison to community.' The British Journal of Sociology