The Handbook, the first major text focusing on the broader themes of Sensory Criminology, was commissioned by Tom Sutton of Routledge. Here he and three of the Editors discuss this process, the aims of the Book, and the developing nature and opportunity of this nascent area of criminological imagination. In this roundtable we will discuss how a book of this nature comes to be and how we can use such to challenge the Western, Andro-and-ocularcentric, criminology that has dominated the field by amplifying voices and the multiplicity of experiences of those rarely heard. The relationship between the sensory, harm, criminal justice, culture, experience, emotion, and interpretation is complex, and exploring it takes us back to our first order epistemological questions of “How do we know?” Alongside such questions, the roundtable will also explore issues around how exploring the sensory can collapse the construal distance between those who research our complex physical worlds and those who inhabit them. Also, we will explicate the benefits of revisiting field notes, interviews, and even the criminological canon in order to demonstrate what a focus on the material and symbolic communications of criminological sensoria can do to deepen and broaden our understanding.