Dr. Leonidas Cheliotis wins the 2022 ESC European Journal of Criminology Best Article Award
Dr. Leonidas Cheliotis, Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Social Policy, has won the European Society of Criminology's 2022 European Journal of Criminology Best Article Award, in recognition of his article 'Depression and repression: Global capitalism, economic crisis and penal politics in interwar Greece' (freely downloadable here).
Focusing on interwar Greece, and bringing novel archival data to bear on insights from economic history, politics and criminology, Dr. Cheliotis' article addresses a crucial yet understudied topic: how conditions of economic crisis and the political orientation of government interact to influence state punishment. In so doing, the article also assesses the impact that different extranational factors and actors may have in terms of economic, political or directly penal matters domestically.
The award 'recognises the author(s) of the most outstanding article published in the European Journal of Criminology during each calendar year'. Commenting on Dr. Cheliotis' article, the award committee noted that its 'relevance extends across both space and time, given the recurring manifestation of global economic crises', that 'it provides a compelling narrative the lessons of which apply to a number of jurisdictions’, and that it will 'stimulate further reflection and research.'
The award will be formally conferred to Dr. Cheliotis at the annual European Society of Criminology conference, on 6 September in Florence, Italy.