Dr Samantha Fletcher

Senior Lecturer in Criminology

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Biography

My name is Samantha Fletcher and over the course of 10 years, I have taught, and researched, a range of subject matters including, but not limited to, global justice, policing, surveillance, security, transnational organised crime, crimes of the powerful, research methods in social sciences, green criminology, crimes against humanity, and matters of social harm.

Membership of professional associations

I am currently the coordinator of the Crimes of the Powerful Working Group c/o The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control. The group welcomes, and seeks to foster relationships between, activists, academics, teachers, researchers and students with the aim to provide an opportunity to share knowledge regarding the extent and nature of corporate and state harms, inclusive of collaborative research prospects that work towards emancipatory change.

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0161 247 2045
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Research outputs

My main research interests are focussed around matters of crime, harm, and global justice. I am particularly interested in new social movements that seek to challenge global inequalities and injustice. Central to all my research concerns is a commitment to active scholarship that can contribute to discourses and activities seeking to redress inequalities and harms, caused by powerful persons, in the pursuit of capitalist accumulation of wealth.

  • Books (authored/edited/special issues)

    Fletcher, S., White, H. (2017) Emerging Voices: Critical Social Research by European Group Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers. London: EG Press Limited.

  • Chapters in books

    Fletcher, S., McGowan, W. 'The financial life of funerals before death.' In Mallon, S., Towers, L. (ed.) Death, Dying and Bereavement: new sociological perspectives. Routledge BSA Sociological Futures,

    Fletcher, S., McGowan, W. (2023) 'The neoliberal state: then and now.' In Scott, D.G., Sim, J. (ed.) Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm: the work and legacy of Steven Box. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 181-202.

    Fletcher, S. (2016) 'The Occupy Movement vs. Capitalist Realism: Seeking Extraordinary Transformations in Consciousness.' Green Harms and Crimes: Critical Criminology in a Changing World. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 238-255.

    Fletcher, S. (2014) 'Protest.' Shades of Deviance A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm. Oxon: Routledge,

    Fletcher, S. (2014) 'The Occupy Movement.' Public Engagement and Social Science. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 83-94.

  • Journal articles

    Fletcher, S., McGowan, W. (2023) 'The new normal? Ordinary deaths and marginalised mortalities in extraordinary times.' Mortality, 28(2) pp. 207-219.

    Fletcher, S., McGowan, W. (2020) 'The State of the UK funeral industry.' Critical Social Policy, 41(2) pp. 249-269.

    Fletcher, S. (2015) 'Negotiating the Resistance: Catch 22s, Brokering, and Contention within Occupy Safer Spaces Policy.' Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest, 3(2) pp. 5-16.

    Barrett, G.A., Fletcher, S., Patel, T.G. (2014) 'Black minority ethnic communities and levels of satisfaction with policing: Findings from a study in the north of England.' Criminology & Criminal Justice, 14(2) pp. 196-215.

  • Conference papers

    Fletcher, S. (2016) ''All I ever do is struggle and strive. If I don’t do anybody any harm, I might make it back alive’: What does the UK EU referendum mean for the class struggle.' In Economic Crisis and Crime: From Global North to Global South: 44th Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal,

    Fletcher, S. (2015) 'How do you solve a hegemonic catch 22? Reflections from research and activism with the Occupy movement.' In Les nouvelles formes de contestation: du national au transnational. Université de Savoie Mont Blanc Chambéry-Jacob,

    Fletcher, S. (2014) 'Locating the resistance in the hegemonic mire: Contesting the construction of ‘the other’ from within.' In 42nd Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control: Resisting the demonisation of ‘the Other’: State, nationalism and social control in a time of crisis. Liverpool John Moores University, UK,