Reimagining Justice through Creative Encounters and Sensory Knowing

This section draws together four rich interdisciplinary contributions that prompt criminology to rethink what counts as knowledge, where that knowledge is produced, and how it is sensed. From prison workshops to religious practice, from choral performance to museum exhibition, these chapters collectively expand the criminological sensorium by foregrounding inquiry as an affective, relational, and multisensory undertaking. Crucially, the contributors do not treat the arts as mere tools of representation; instead, they frame artistic and creative practices as epistemic and political acts that challenge the cognitive dominance and disciplinary borders of mainstream criminology. Drawing from music, visual art, theatre, and participatory forms of research, the authors ask: what becomes possible when criminological questions are approached through rhythm, resonance, image, gesture, and spatial affect?.