SAPPHO XENAKIS
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My research explores the relationship between national, transnational and global forces behind the emergence and evolution of criminal justice policies, particularly as concerns the use of imprisonment and efforts to counter organised and white-collar crime.

Current Research Projects

International Criminological Theory/Punishment
Papers in progress:
  • Towards a Global Political Economy of Punishment
  • Punishment, Political Economy and Change: Discipline, Disorder and the Labour Market in the US and UK
  • Where Now for International Criminology? Stocktaking and Agenda-Setting at a Critical Juncture

Organised & White-Collar Crime
Monograph in progress (under contract with Routledge):  Governing Through Organised Crime: Evidence, Policy Transfer and State Peripherality
Papers in progress:
  • Nationalist Bandits, the Greek State, and the Contestation of Political Legitimacy over the Longue Durée
  • The Metropole and the Mafia: Organised Crime, State Capture and the World's Most Powerful Democracy

Awards

2018 Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award, Critical Criminal Justice Section of the American Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
2011 Young Criminologist of the Year, European Society of Criminology


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