Samantha Fletcher

Dr. Samantha Fletcher serves as Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Manchester Metropolitan University, specializing in systemic analyses of crime, harm, and global justice frameworks. Her decade-long academic career spans teaching and research in policing, surveillance, security, transnational organised crime, green criminology, and crimes against humanity.

Her scholarship centers on emancipatory approaches to redressing harms caused by powerful entities within capitalist wealth accumulation systems. Key research domains include:

• Crimes of the Powerful (corporate/state harms)
• Transnational Organised Crime networks
• Green Criminology and environmental justice
• Social movements challenging global inequalities

As coordinator of the Crimes of the Powerful Working Group under The European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, she actively bridges academic research with activist initiatives to foster collaborative knowledge production targeting structural injustices.