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Sharon Hartles  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3709-7032
- Member of the The Open University's Harm & Evidence Research Collaborative (HER​C).
- Member of the British Society of Criminology (BSC).
​- Affiliated  with the University of Strathclyde.
- Published Critical Criminologist. 

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I am interested in the crimes of the powerful elite and how crime and justice systems (locally and globally) are constructed to protect certain interests over others, whilst simultaneously exacerbating harms against already marginalised and vulnerable groups within society.

My work focuses on challenging state-corporate crime, white-collar crime and spans a number of related areas such as the criminalisation of 
children, homelessness, drug usage (medical cannabis) and immigration.

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 impassioned by criminology and social justice movements and this passion is reflected in my research. In recent work, I have shone a light on the lack of truth, justice and accountability around (ongoing) harms resulting from the Grenfell ‘tragedy’, SNC-Lavalin ‘Affair’ and the Primodos ‘Scandal’. 

In an explicit attempt to move beyond criminology, I draw upon techniques from across the disciplines including a zemiological approach (and more recently a health history lens) to evidence the social, political and economic context (historical and geographical prevalence) in which harms, including those labelled as crimes, are produced and interwoven into society via socio-economic inequality. 

In doing so, my research endevours to provide a fresh approach to the challenges, problems and injustices faced by people in their day-to-day lives, whilst contributing and adding to the body of research within my interdisciplinary areas of study. 

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​This article was originally published on: 
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​This article can be viewed on: The Association For Children Damaged by Hormone Pregnancy Tests 01/08/20

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​Signatory of: Open letter to the European Society of Criminology 10/09/19 

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Blog published by: Julie Anderson (Crime fiction writer and author) 26/12/20 - Following our discussion on 21/12/20 - which will feed into Oracle - to be published in Spring 2021 
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  • Bhopal State-Corporate Crime continues to unfold, (1984-Present), 35 years and counting
  • End Child Imprisonment
  • The Grenfell 72 - Two Years On: Remember the dead and fight for the living!
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  • The punitive shift towards the criminalisation of homelessness
  • Dominic Cummings, Covid-19 rule breaking and the truth twisters
  • How have 'crimes' of the powerful been illustrated in the Grenfell Tragedy?
  • Grenfell: a site of global crime, harm and social (in)justice?
  • Prisons Don't Work! A zemiological approach
  • Austerity, social murder and the homeless crisis
  • Is it time for the UK government to legalise the use of cannabis?
  • A decade since the implementation of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 - NOT fit for purpose
  • An overhaul of the crime and justice systems is now pertinent
  • Is it time the UK government decriminalise homelessness?
  • Are states powerless to criminalise harms perpetrated by corporations?
  • What factors influence state power?
  • Is corporate harm beyond the remit of state power?
  • Are local and global crime and justice systems exploited to aid the harms committed by corporations?
  • Is corporate crime better considered through a social harm approach rather than through the paradigm of crime?
  • CRIMMIGRATION Revealed
  • How can the pursuit of security help to explain the punitive shift towards crimmigration law?
  • Influential people
    • Recommended reading
  • ReThinking Anxiety by providing an insight into its construction and deconstruction
    • The social construction of the medication of anxiety
      • Grenfell: A Social Harm to a Social Murder!