Carol Christine Smart was born on 20 December 1948 and is a feminist sociologist and academic at the University of Manchester.
10 Facts About Carol Smart
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Carol Smart has conducted research about divorce and children of divorced couples.
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Carol Smart's book titled Women, Crime and Criminology, written in 1976, remains a key feminist critique of criminology.
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Carol Smart was the co-director of the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life at Manchester.
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Carol Smart began her academic career by studying sociology at Portsmouth Polytechnic, which is Portsmouth University.
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Carol Smart completed her PhD in Socio-Legal studies from Sheffield in 1983.
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Carol Smart began her teaching career at the then, Trent Polytechnic,.
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Carol Smart has published works in the areas of criminology, family law and social policy.
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Carol 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.
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Carol Smart was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to the social sciences.