Environmental harm and the senses: A visual and sensory approach to green criminology

This note highlights the need to integrate multisensory methods into green criminology to better represent all victims of environmental harm—human, non-human, and ecological. Visual and sensory methods illuminate forms of suffering often overlooked by traditional, anthropocentric approaches, such as semi-structured interviews. While emphasizing the power of visual tools in researching harm to non-human animals, this note ultimately advocates for a broader turn toward sensory methods that can more completely access and communicate other-than-human experiences. Informed by, among others, critical animal studies, ethology, and biology, an integrated sensory and green criminological approach challenges anthropocentrism and repositions non-humans as research subjects rather than objects. Only through such inclusive multispecies methods can green criminology fully address environmental and species injustice.