Carol Smart

Carol Smart
Born (1948-12-20) 20 December 1948 (age 75)
Known forThe study of relationships and personal lives
Scientific career
FieldsSociology, criminology
InstitutionsUniversity of Manchester
Family law
Family
Marriage and other unions and status
Validity of marriages
Dissolution of marriages
Children's issues
Private international law
Family and criminal code
(or criminal law)

Carol Christine Smart[1] CBE (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.

  1. ^ "New Year's Honours list 2017" (PDF). Gov.uk. Government Digital Service. 30 December 2016. p. 19. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Smart, Carol". Library of Congress. Retrieved 18 July 2014. CIP t.p. (Carol Smart) data sheet (b. 12-20-48)
  3. ^ Lakhani, Nina (10 April 2010). "Why dumping a friend is hard". The Independent. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  4. ^ "Carol Smart". Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life. Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  5. ^ Phillips, Angela (17 October 2003). "Why a child is not a house". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 April 2010. 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.
  6. ^ Horin, Adele (27 March 2004). "New parental etiquette". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  7. ^ Smart, Carol (1977). Women, crime, and criminology: a feminist critique. London Boston: Routledge & K. Paul. ISBN 9780710088338.