Leonidas K. Cheliotis is an Associate Professor of Criminology in ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳'s Department of Social Policy, and Co-Coordinator of the Hellenic Observatory's Society, Identity and Rights Cluster. Between 2019 and 2024, he was the Director of ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology. He has published widely on the politics of crime and criminal justice in Greece. He is currently working on a project focusing on the relationship between economic crisis and different forms of state punishment in interwar and contemporary Greece. He is also co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Criminology in Southern Europe (under contract with Oxford University Press), which will include a range of contributions on the Greek case.
Research interests: Crime/Criminalisation; Criminal Justice/State Punishment; Immigration; Domestic Politics/Foreign Influence
Dr Cheliotis is currently working on a project focusing on the relationship between economic crisis and different forms of state punishment in interwar and contemporary Greece. He is also co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Criminology in Southern Europe (under contract with Oxford University Press), which will include a range of contributions on the Greek case.