A Sense of Danger: Gender-Based Violence and the Quest for a Sensory Criminology

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Abstract

This article responds to recent calls for a ‘sensory criminology’ by offering a multi-sensorial analysis of gender-based violence (GBV). We examine both the often-discussed external senses as well as the more marginalized internal senses and explore how emotion, the broader criminological ‘atmosphere’ of GBV and the shift in atmosphere during the Covid-19 pandemic are implicated in women’s experiences of street-based sexual harassment and sexual assault. By analysing over 140 stories of GBV during the Covid-19 lockdowns, we evidence the scope and value of a fully multi-sensory criminology.

Publication Date

2024-01-01

Publication Title

Feminist Criminology

Volume

19

Issue

1

ISSN

1557-0851

Deposit Date

2023-11-14

Embargo Period

9999-12-31

Funding

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/VO13122/1).

Keywords

domestic violence, femicide, intimate partner violence, qualitative research, sexual harassment, victimization

First Page

3

Last Page

24

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