Carol Smart Explained

Carol Smart
Birth Date:1948 12, df=yes
Fields:Sociology, criminology
Workplaces:University of Manchester
Known For:The study of relationships and personal lives

Carol Christine Smart[1] (born 20 December 1948[2]) is a feminist sociologist and academic at the University of Manchester.[3] [4] She has also conducted research about divorce and children of divorced couples.[5] [6]

Smart is an important figure within the feminist criminology world. Her book titled Women, Crime and Criminology,[7] written in 1976, remains a key feminist critique of criminology. Smart was also the co-director of the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life at Manchester.

Career

Smart began her academic career by studying sociology at Portsmouth Polytechnic, which is now Portsmouth University. After completing her BA, she moved on to complete her masters in criminology from the University of Sheffield. She also completed her PhD in Socio-Legal studies also from Sheffield in 1983.

Smart began her teaching career at the then, Trent Polytechnic, (as a lecturer and senior lecturer). After that, she became a professor at the University of Leeds. In 2005, she moved to the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life in the Arthur Lewis Building of the University of Manchester, where she was co-director. She retired in 2014.[8]

Smart has published works in the areas of criminology, family law and social policy. Her main interests over the last few years have been family life and intimacy and how people conduct their personal lives. Smart has done much research on divorce and separation and how this affects children, the couple and other kin, and on gay and lesbian civil partnerships and their commitment ceremonies. More recently she has been working on 'Relative Strangers',[9] a project which explores the experiences of families with donor-conceived children.

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to the social sciences.

Bibliography

Radio

Books

Journal articles

Book chapters

Reports

A set of reports funded by the Department for Constitutional Affairs using qualitative data, specifically, interviews with parents who had taken their disputes over residence and contact with their children to court. The 2003 reports relate to interviews conducted at the start of the legal process whilst the 2005 reports relate to interviews conducted as the cases were concluded.

The Cambridge dictionary of sociology

Smart has provided definitions for the following words in The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology :[10]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: New Year's Honours list 2017. 30 December 2016. 30 December 2016. Gov.uk. Government Digital Service. 19.
  2. Web site: Smart, Carol . Library of Congress . 18 July 2014 . CIP t.p. (Carol Smart) data sheet (b. 12-20-48).
  3. News: Why dumping a friend is hard . Lakhani . Nina . 10 April 2010. The Independent . 12 April 2010.
  4. Web site: Carol Smart. Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life. 12 April 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20110217071925/http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/people/smart/. 17 February 2011. dead.
  5. News: Why a child is not a house. Phillips. Angela . 17 October 2003 . The Guardian. New research from a longitudinal study by Carol Smart of the Care, Values and the Future of Welfare (Cava) research programme at the University of Leeds asked children what it actually feels like to be shared.. 12 April 2010.
  6. News: New parental etiquette . Horin . Adele . Adele Horin . 27 March 2004. Sydney Morning Herald. 12 April 2010.
  7. Book: Smart, Carol . Women, crime, and criminology: a feminist critique . Routledge & K. Paul . London Boston . 1977 . 9780710088338 . registration .
  8. Web site: Prof Carol Smart - personal details.
  9. Web site: Relative Strangers (Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life - the University of Manchester) . 26 April 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111109021019/http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/research/relative-strangers/index.html . 9 November 2011 . dead .
  10. Book: Turner, Bryan . The Cambridge dictionary of sociology . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England New York . 2006 . 9780521832908 .

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