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Sally Atkinson-Sheppard is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Westminster, specializing in street children’s involvement in organized crime across Asia and the UK. She earned her PhD from King’s College London through ethnographic research on Dhaka’s street children and mastaans.
- University of Westminster Lecturer (2020–present)
- King’s College London PhD (2015)
- Metropolitan Police Service Researcher (2010–2015)
Her research focuses on labor theory applications to juvenile crime, comparative studies between Bangladesh, China, Nepal, and UK county lines. She examines coercion, agency, and UNCRC implementation in marginalized youth contexts.
- 2020: Asian Society of Criminology Distinguished Book Award
- 2025: Keynote at International Conference on Global Crime Prevention (India)
- 2023: Keynote at International Crime, Law and Forensics Conference (India)
She has delivered presentations at the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and Dhaka University, and collaborates with researchers in Nepal. Her work spans journal articles in British Journal of Criminology, Critical Criminology, and Child Abuse & Neglect.
