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.

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Title: Sound, Order and Survival in Prison
Publisher: Bristol University Press, GB
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1529229480
ISBN 13: 9781529229486
Binding: Paperback
Condition: New

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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 is the story of a year spent with a UK prison community, bringing its social world vividly to life through aural ethnography.

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Kate Herrity is the Mellon-Kings Research Fellow in Punishment at the University of Cambridge.

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