Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives - Softcover

"`Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece' is a tour de force, an ingenious, useful, and important book on crime, criminal justice, and thinking about both in Greece, as seen from inside by Greek scholars and from outside by subject matter specialists from other Western countries. [...] I hope its bifocaled approach is emulated by others willing to undertake the daunting effort this book represents." (Michael Tonry, University of Minnesota Law School, from the Foreword) "There is no question that this book is a landmark achievement providing an in depth introduction to crime and punishment in Greek society, but also in providing a living example of globalisation in action." (Jamie Bennett, Prison Service Journal 204, 2012) "(...) the volume is a remarkable achievement in terms of scope, quality and ambition. In their Introduction, the editors emphasize that the overall goal of the publication is to stimulate further future research on crime and punishment in Greece from both a domestic and an international and comparative perspective. It is surely the case that this first important step puts any future research on firm ground." (Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 31, 2013/1)

Leonidas K. Cheliotis is Lecturer in Criminology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Sappho Xenakis is Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow of the European Commission at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens, Greece. She is also an Associate of the South East European Studies programme at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK.