Pre-publication versions of many of the outputs listed below can be found on Birkbeck's online repository, BiRON. 

Books

Lacey, N., D. Soskice, L. K. Cheliotis and S. Xenakis (eds) (2021) Tracing the Relationship between Crime, Inequality and Punishment: Space, Time and Politics. Oxford: British Academy/Oxford University Press.
The question of inequality has moved decisively to the top of the contemporary intellectual agenda. Going beyond Thomas Piketty’s focus on wealth, increasing inequalities of various kinds, and their impact on social, political and economic life, now present themselves among the most urgent issues facing scholars in the humanities and the social sciences. Key among these is the relationship between inequality, crime and punishment.  The propositions that social inequality shapes crime and punishment, and that crime and punishment themselves cause or exacerbate inequality, are conventional wisdom.  Yet, paradoxically, they are also controversial. In this volume, historians, criminologists, lawyers, sociologists and political scientists come together to try to solve this paradox by unpacking these relationships in different contexts. The causal mechanisms underlying these correlations call for investigation by means of a sustained programme of research bringing different disciplines to bear on the problem. This volume develops an interdisciplinary approach which builds on but goes beyond recent comparative and historical research on the institutional, cultural and political-economic factors shaping crime and punishment so as better to understand whether, and if so how and why, social and economic inequality influences levels and types of crime and punishment, and conversely whether crime and punishment shape inequalities.

Cheliotis, L. K. and S. Xenakis (eds) (2011) Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives. Oxford: Peter Lang AG [635 pp.]
This book constitutes the most comprehensive and authoritative single work on crime and its control in contemporary Greece. Bringing together empirical and theoretical work, it sheds light on such diverse themes as fear of crime and public punitiveness; media, crime, and criminal justice; youth and crime; immigration, crime, and criminal justice; corruption; organised crime and political violence; surveillance; sex trafficking; drugs, crime, and criminal justice; honour, violence, and crime; the impact of the EU on criminal justice; policing; youth justice and probation; the adult judicial system; and prisons and parole. Primary chapters are followed by discussant pieces from internationally recognised non-Greek generalists, a format that highlights the wider relevance of criminological research on Greece to international audiences. [Reviewed in: Howard Journal of Criminal Justice; Journal of Modern Greek Studies; Prison Service Journal] 
 
Eyal, J. (gen. ed.), J. Brown, E. Ford, and S. Xenakis (eds) (2003) Documents on British Foreign and Security Policy: Volume 2, 1997-1998. London: Stationery Office.
 

Journal Articles
 
Xenakis (2022) 'Punishment, political economy and crisis: Disciplining labour through state-corporate surveillance in the 'neoliberal heartlands'', European Journal of Criminology 19(3): 332-348.

Xenakis, S. (2021) 'Trouble with the outlaws: Bandits, the state, and political legitimacy in Greece over the longue durée', Journal of Historical Sociology 34(3): 504-516.

Xenakis, S. (2021) 'International Criminology and international connectivity: Reflections at a critical juncture', International Criminology 1(1): 78-85.

Xenakis, S. (2021) 'Incapacity, pathology, or expediency? Revisiting accounts of data and analysis weaknesses underpinning international efforts to combat organised crime', Trends in Organized Crime 24: 6-22.

Cheliotis, L. K. and S. Xenakis (2021) 'What's Left? Political orientation, economic conditions and incarceration in Greece under Syriza-led government', European Journal of Criminology 18(1): 74-100.

Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2019) 'Whither neoliberal penality? The past, present and future of imprisonment in the US', Punishment & Society 21(2): 187-206.

Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2018) 'Carceral moderation and the Janus Face of international pressure: A long view of Greece's engagement with the European Convention of Human Rights', Crime, Law and Social Change 70(1): 37-56.
  • Reprinted as: 'International Pressure and Carceral Moderation: Greece and the European Convention of Human Rights', in G. Cliquennois and H. de Suremain (Eds) (2018) Monitoring Penal Policy in Europe, pp. 89-103. London: Routledge.
  • Translated into Spanish as: 'Moderación carcelaria y la cara de Jano de la presión internacional. Una larga reseña sobre el involucramiento de Grecia en la convención europea de Derechos Humanos', Unidad Sociológica (Buenos Aires) Año 4, N. 13-14 (2019): 6-22.
 
Xenakis, S. and K. Ivanov (2017) 'Does hypocrisy matter? National reputational damage and British anti-corruption mentoring in the Balkans', Critical Criminology 25(3): 433-452.
 
Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2016) ‘‘Glocal’ disorder: Causes, conduct and consequences of the 2008 Greek unrest’, European Journal of Criminology 13(5): 639-656.
 
Cheliotis, L. K. and S. Xenakis (2016) ‘Punishment and political systems: State punitiveness in post-dictatorial Greece’, Punishment & Society 18(3): 268-300.

Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2013) ‘Crime and economic downturn: The complexity of crime and crime politics in Greece since 2009’, British Journal of Criminology 53(5): 719-745.  
Xenakis S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2013) ‘Spaces of contestation: Challenges, actors and expertise in the management of urban security in Greece’, European Journal of Criminology 10(3): 297-313.  
Xenakis, S. (2013) ‘Normative hybridity in contemporary Greece: Beyond “modernisers” and “underdogs” in socio-political discourse and practice’, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 31(2): 171-192.
 
Xenakis, S. (2012) ‘A new dawn? Change and continuity in political violence in Greece’, Terrorism and Political Violence 24(3): 437-464.
 
Xenakis, S. (2011) ‘Το Οργανωμένο Έγκλημα στην Ελλάδα: Η Οριοθέτηση και Αξιολόγηση της Απειλής’ [‘Organised Crime in Greece: Defining and Assessing the Threat’], Εφαρμογές Δημοσίου Δικαίου 24(2): 137-145.
 
Xenakis, S. (2010) ‘Pride and prejudice: Comparative corruption research and the British case’, Crime, Law and Social Change 54(1): 39-61.
  • Winner of the 2011 Young Criminologist Award of the European Society of Criminology.
 
Cheliotis, L. K. and S. Xenakis (2010) ‘What’s neoliberalism got to do with it? Towards a political economy of punishment in Greece’, Criminology & Criminal Justice 10(4): 353-373.  
Xenakis, S. (2004) ‘International norm diffusion and organised crime policy: The case of Greece’, Global Crime 6(3-4): 345-373.             
 

Book Chapters

Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2021) 'The Violence of Inequality: Race and Lobbying in the Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States', in N. Lacey, D. Soskice, L. K. Cheliotis and S. Xenakis (eds) Tracing the Relationship between Crime, Inequality and Punishment: Space, Time and Politics, pp. 68-93. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford: British Academy/Oxford University Press.

Cheliotis, L. K. and S. Xenakis (2021) 'Exploring the Relationship between Inequality, Crime and Punishment: Some Afterthoughts on Method', in N. Lacey, D. Soskice, L. K. Cheliotis and S. Xenakis (eds) Tracing the Relationship between Crime, Inequality and Punishment: Space, Time and Politics, pp. 325-331. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford: British Academy/Oxford University Press.

Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2020) 'The Trumping of Neoliberal Penality? Trump's Presidency and the Rise of Nationalist Authoritarianism in the US,' in R. Koulish and M. van de Woude (eds) Crimmigrant Nations: Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders, pp. 116-133. New York: Fordham University Press.

Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2018) ‘Neoliberalism and the Politics of Imprisonment’, in W. DeKeseredy and M. Dragiewicz (eds) Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology, pp. 249-259. London: Routledge.
 
Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2018) 'Crime and Criminal Justice Policy during the Financial Crisis in Greece', in A. Placas and D. Doxiadis (eds) Living under Austerity: Greek Society in Crisis, pp. 181-216. New York and Oxford: Berghahn.
 
Cheliotis, L. K. and S. Xenakis (2016) ‘The Moral Psychology of Penal Populism’, in J. Jacobs and J. Jackson (eds) Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics, pp. 176-190. London: Routledge.
  • Spanish translation forthcoming as: ‘La economía política del castigo y la economía doméstica del alma [The Political Economy of Punishment and the Domestic Economy of the Soul]’, in J. Á. García Brandariz and M. Sozzo (eds) (2017) Neoliberalism y Penalidad. Buenos Aires: Ad-Hoc.
 
Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2015) ‘Anger Management and the Politics of Crime in the Greek Crisis’, in G. Karyotis and R. Gerodimos (eds) Greece Beyond the Crisis: The Politics of Extreme Austerity, pp. 142-159. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 
 
Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2013) ‘Crime and Politics in the Greek Crisis: Corruption, Common Crime, and Organised Political Violence’, in M. Tsilimpounidi and A. Walsh (eds) Remapping ‘Crisis’: A Guide to Athens, pp. 144-152. Alresford: Zero Books.
 
Xenakis, S. (2012) ‘Corruption and Organised Crime in the UK’, in P. Gounev and V. Ruggiero (eds) Corruption and Organised Crime in Europe: Illegal Partnerships, pp. 189-200. London: Routledge.
 
Xenakis, S. (2011) ‘Organised Crime and Political Violence’, in L. K. Cheliotis and S. Xenakis (eds) Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives, pp. 241-287. Oxford: Peter Lang AG.
  • With responses by Vincenzo Ruggiero (pp. 289-296) and Margaret Beare (pp. 297-305).
 
Cheliotis, L. K. and S. Xenakis (2011) ‘Crime, Fear of Crime and Punitiveness’, in L. K. Cheliotis and S. Xenakis (eds) Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives, pp. 1-43. Oxford: Peter Lang AG.
  • With a response by Jonathan Jackson, Monica Gerber and Carolyn Côté-Lussier (pp. 45-64).
 
Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2011) ‘Introduction’, in L. K. Cheliotis and S. Xenakis (eds) Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives, pp. xiii-xvii. Oxford: Peter Lang AG.
 
Xenakis, S. (2010) ‘Political Corruption and Organised Crime in Central and South-Eastern Europe’, in Europa Publications (ed.) Central and South-Eastern Europe 2011, pp. 3-6. London: Routledge.
  • Updated in Europa Publications (ed.) (2011) Central and South-Eastern Europe 2012, pp. 7-11. London: Routledge.
 
Xenakis, S. (2010) ‘Resisting Submission? The Obstinacy of “Balkanist” Characteristics in Greece as Dissidence against “The West”’, in L. K. Cheliotis (ed.) The Banality of Good: Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance, pp. 178-196. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
 
Xenakis, S. (2004) ‘Organised Crime in the Balkans: Pitfalls of Threat Assessment’, in A. Fatić (ed.) Security in Southeastern Europe, pp. 197-211. Belgrade: The Management Centre.
 

Reports
 
Xenakis, S. (2008) ‘Perceptions of Corruption in the United Kingdom: A Comparison of Findings from Documentary Analysis and Interviews of the First and Second Phases of the Project’. SEESOX Final Report for the Crime and Culture Research Project. Konstanz: University of Konstanz.
 
Xenakis, S. (2007) ‘Perceptions of Corruption in the United Kingdom: A Content Analysis of Interviews from Politics, Judiciary, Police, Media, Civil Society and Economy’. SEESOX State of the Art Report for the Crime and Culture Research Project. Konstanz: University of Konstanz.
 
Xenakis, S. (2006) ‘Perceptions of Corruption in the United Kingdom: A Content Analysis of Documents from Politics, Judiciary, Police, Media, Civil Society and Economy’. SEESOX State of the Art Report for the Crime and Culture Research Project. Konstanz: University of Konstanz.
 

Discussion Papers  
 
Xenakis, S. (2008) ‘Domestic Elite Perceptions of British Corruption’, Discussion Paper 19, Crime and Culture Research Project. Konstanz: University of Konstanz.
 
Xenakis, S. (2008) ‘The View From Above: Interviews with Corruption Experts in the UK’, Discussion Paper 18, Crime and Culture Research Project. Konstanz: University of Konstanz.
 
Xenakis, S. (2007) ‘The Dog(s) that Didn’t Bark: Exploring Perceptions of Corruption in the UK’, Discussion Paper 10, Crime and Culture Research Project. Konstanz: University of Konstanz.
 

Other Publications
 
Xenakis, S. (2013) ‘Organised Crime and the Corruption of Public Institutions in the United Kingdom: Implications for Policy and Practice’, Penal Issues (1): 1-4 [peer-reviewed research report series]. Paris: CNRS-Ministère de la Justice.
  • Translated into French as ‘Criminalité Organisée et Corruption des Institutions Publiques au Royaume-Uni: Conséquences sur les Politiques et les Pratiques’, Questions Penales. Paris: CNRS- Ministère de la Justice, 2013.
 
Xenakis, S. and L. K. Cheliotis (2012) ‘The Politics of Crime and the Financial Crisis in Greece’, Criminology in Europe: Newsletter of the European Society of Criminology 13(2): 5-7, 9.
  • Republished as ‘The Politics of Crime and the Financial Crisis in Greece’, openDemocracy, 2 August 2012.
 
Xenakis, S. (2011) ‘Comparative Corruption Research’, Criminology in Europe: Newsletter of the European Society of Criminology 12(3): 3-5.
 
Xenakis, S. (2010) ‘Organised Crime and Corruption in and around South-Eastern Europe: Trends and Counter-Efforts’, ELIAMEP Thesis 4/2010 [policy paper series]. Athens: ELIAMEP.
 
Xenakis, S. (2009) ‘Crime’, in A. Iriye and P.Y. Saunier (eds) The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
 
Xenakis, S. (2007) ‘Difficulties in Applying Generic Conceptualisations of Organised Crime to Specific National Circumstances’, in F. Shanty and P.P. Mishra (eds) Organised Crime: From Trafficking to Terrorism, vol. 1, pp. 47-51. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
 
Xenakis, S. (2001) ‘The Challenge of Organised Crime to State Sovereignty in the Balkans: An Historical Approach’, Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop, Harvard University. Available at: www.ksg.harvard.edu/kokkalis/pastevents.wkshop3.html
 
Xenakis, S. (1998) ‘Greek Foreign Policy in the Balkans’, RUSI Newsbrief 18(9): 67-70. Whitehall, London: Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies.
 
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Book Reviews
 
Xenakis, S. (2010) Review of ‘EU Criminal Law’ by Valsamis Mitsilegas (2009), in Global Crime 11(1): 84-86.
 
Xenakis, S. (2006) Review of ‘Political Corruption in Transition: A Skeptic’s Handbook’ by Kotkin, S. and Sajó, A. (eds) (2002), in Global Crime 7(2): 274-277.
 
Xenakis, S. (2001) Review of ‘Europe’s Last Red Terrorists: The Revolutionary Organisation 17 November’ by George Kassimeris (2001), in Southeast European Politics 2(2): 154-156. 
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