Sappho Xenakis

Article

• Xenakis, Sappho (2022) Punishment, political economy and crisis: disciplining labour through state-corporate surveillance in the ‘Neoliberal Heartlands’. European Journal of Criminology 19 (3), pp. 332-348. ISSN 1477-3708.
• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2022) Expendable lives: race and segmented representation in the politics of crime and criminal justice in the United States. Critical Criminology ISSN 1205-8629.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2021) Trouble with the outlaws: bandits, the state, and political legitimacy in Greece over the Longue Durée. Journal of Historical Sociology 34 (3), pp. 504-516. ISSN 0952-1909.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2021) Incapacity, pathology, or expediency? Revisiting accounts of data and analysis weaknesses underpinning international efforts to combat organised crime. Trends in Organized Crime 24, pp. 6-22. ISSN 1084-4791.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2021) International criminology and international connectivity: reflections at a pivotal juncture. International Criminology 1 (1), pp. 78-85. ISSN 2662-9976.
• Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho (2021) What's Left? Political orientation, economic conditions and incarceration in Greece under Syriza-led government. European Journal of Criminology 18 (1), pp. 74-100. ISSN 1477-3708.
• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2019) Whither Neoliberal penality? The past, present and future of imprisonment in the US. Punishment & Society 21 (2), pp. 187-206. ISSN 1462-4745.
• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L. (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), pp. 37-56. ISSN 0925-4994.
• Xenakis, Sappho and Ivanov, K. (2017) Does hypocrisy matter? National reputational damage and British anti-corruption mentoring in the Balkans. Critical Criminology 25 (3), pp. 433-452. ISSN 1205-8629.
• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2016) 'Glocal' disorder: causes, conduct and consequences of the 2008 Greek unrest. European Journal of Criminology 13 (5), pp. 639-656. ISSN 1477-3708.
• Cheliotis, L. and Xenakis, Sappho (2016) Punishment and political systems: state punitiveness in post-dictatorial Greece. Punishment and Society 18 (3), pp. 268-300. ISSN 1462-4745.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2013) Normative hybridity in contemporary Greece: beyond “Modernizers” and “Underdogs” in socio-political discourse and practice. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 31 (2), pp. 171-192. ISSN 0738-1727.
• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2013) Spaces of contestation: challenges, actors and expertise in the management of urban security in Greece. European Journal of Criminology 10 (3), pp. 297-313. ISSN 1477-3708.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2013) Golden dawn arrests: a victory for democracy in Greece?. OpenDemocracy
• Xenakis, Sappho (2013) Organised crime and the corruption of public institutions in the United Kingdom: implications for policy and practice. Penal Issues ISSN 1155-4169.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2013) Violent extremism in Greece: focusing on the far-right. OpenDemocracy
• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2013) Crime and economic downturn: the complexity of crime and crime politics in Greece since 2009. British Journal of Criminology ISSN 0007-0955.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2012) A new dawn? Change and continuity in political violence in Greece. Terrorism and Political Violence 24 (3), pp. 437-464. ISSN 0954-6553.
• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2012) The politics of crime and the financial crisis in Greece. OpenDemocracy
• Xenakis, Sappho (2011) Comparative corruption research. Criminology in Europe: Newsletter of the European Society of Criminology 12 (3), pp. 3-5. ISSN 1729-8164.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2011) Organised crime in Greece: defining and assessing the threat. Εφαρμογές Δημοσίου Δικαίου 24 (2), pp. 137-145. ISSN 1106-0549.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2010) Organised crime and corruption in and around South-Eastern Europe: trends and counter-efforts. ELIAMEP Thesis
• Xenakis, Sappho (2010) Pride and prejudice: comparative corruption research and the British case. Crime, Law and Social Change 54 (1), pp. 39-61. ISSN 0925-4994.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2004) International norm diffusion and organised crime policy: the case of Greece. Global Crime 6 (3-4), pp. 345-373. ISSN 1744-0572.
• Xenakis, Sappho (1998) Greek foreign policy in the Balkans. RUSI Newsbrief 18 (9), pp. 67-70.

Book

• Lacey, N. and Soskice, D. and Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho, eds. (2021) Tracing the relationship between inequality, crime and punishment: space, time and politics. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197266922.
• Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho, eds. (2011) Crime and punishment in contemporary Greece: international comparative perspectives. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang. ISBN 9783039115624.

Book Section

• Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho (2021) Exploring the relationship between inequality, crime and punishment: some afterthoughts on method. In: Lacey, N. and Soskice, D. and Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho (eds.) Tracing the Relationship between Inequality, Crime and Punishment: Space, Time and Politics. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197266922.
• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2021) The violence of inequality: race and lobbying in the politics of crime and criminal justice in the United States. In: Lacey, N. and Soskice, D. and Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, S. (eds.) Tracing the Relationship between Inequality, Crime and Punishment: Space, Time and Politics. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 68-93. ISBN 9780197266922.
• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2020) The trumping of neoliberal penality? Trump’s Presidency and the rise of nationalist authoritarianism in the US. In: Koulish, R. and van der Woude, M. (eds.) Crimmigrant Nations: Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders. New York, U.S.: Fordham University Press. pp. 116-133. ISBN 9780823287499.
• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L. (2018) Neoliberalism and the politics of imprisonment. In: DeKeseredy, W. and Dragiewicz, M. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology (Second Edition). London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138656192.
• Cheliotis, L. and Xenakis, Sappho (2016) The moral psychology of penal populism. In: Jacobs, J. and Jackson, J. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics. Routledge International Handbooks. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 176-190. ISBN 9780415708654.
• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L. (2015) Anger management and the politics of crime in the Greek crisis. In: Karyotis, G. and Gerodimos, R. (eds.) The Politics of Extreme Austerity: Greece in the Eurozone Crisis. New Perspectives on South-East Europe. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 142-159. ISBN 9781137369222.
• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2014) Crime and politics in the Greek crisis: corruption, common crime and organised political violence. In: Tsilimpounidi, M. and Walsh, A. (eds.) http://www.zero-books.net/books/remapping-crisis-guide-athens. Zero Books. ISBN 9781780996059.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2012) Corruption and organised crime in the UK. In: Gounev, P. and Ruggiero, V. (eds.) Corruption and Organized Crime in Europe: Illegal Partnerships. Organizational Crime. Oxford, UK: Routledge. pp. 189-200. ISBN 9780415693622.
• Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho (2012) ¿Qué tiene que ver el neoliberalismo con esto? Hacia una economía política del castigo en Grecia. In: Gonzalez Sanchez, I. (ed.) Teoría social, marginalidad urbana y estado penal: Aproximaciones al trabajo de Loïc Wacquant. Colección Estudios de Criminología y Política Criminal. Madrid, Spain: Dykinson. pp. 365-400. ISSN 1748-8958. ISBN 9788415454298.
• Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho (2011) Crime, fear of crime and punitiveness. In: Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho (eds.) Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang. pp. 1-44. ISBN 9783039115624.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2011) Organised crime and political violence. In: Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho (eds.) Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang. pp. 241-288. ISBN 9783039115624.
• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2011) Introduction. In: Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho (eds.) Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang. pp. xiii-xviii. ISBN 9783039115624.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2010) Resisting submission? The obstinacy of "Balkan" characteristics in Greece as dissidence against "The West". In: Cheliotis, L.K. (ed.) Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance: The Banality of Good. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 178-196. ISBN 9780230210394.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2010) Political corruption and organized crime in central and south-eastern Europe. In: Central and South-Eastern Europe 2011 (11th Edition). The Europa Regional Surveys of the World. Oxford, UK: Routledge. pp. 3-6. ISBN 9781857435610.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2009) Crime. In: Iriye, A. and Saunier, P.Y. (eds.) The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History. Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403992956.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2007) Difficulties in applying generic conceptualisations of organised crime to specific national circumstances. In: Shanty, F. and Mishra, P.P. (eds.) Organised Crime: From Trafficking to Terrorism. Santa Barbara, California, USA: ABC-Clio. pp. 47-51. ISBN 9781576073377.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2004) Organised crime in the Balkans: pitfalls of threat assessment. In: Fatić, A. (ed.) Security in Southeastern Europe. The Management Centre. ISBN 9788683289042.

Conference Item

• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L. (2015) Punitiveness after dictatorship: law and order in Greece since 1974. The Colonels’ Dictatorship and Its Afterlives, 2015, Columbia University
• Xenakis, Sappho (2014) Tackling ties between upperworld and underworld: micro-, meso-, and macro-level approaches to countering 'criminal commercial enterprise'. Corruption in Commercial Enterprise Research Network, 2014, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
• Cheliotis, L. and Xenakis, Sappho (2013) Lost in transition: democracy and punitiveness in Greece since 1974. European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 2013, Budapest, Hungary
• Xenakis, Sappho (2013) Approaches to corruption research. Regional Training on Researching Police Corruption, 2013, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Belgrade, Serbia
• Xenakis, Sappho (2013) Which protestors and what grievances? disaggregating urban security challenges in contemporary Greece. Responding to Uprising: Urban Security Between Resilience and Resistance, 2013, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
• Xenakis, Sappho (2013) The missing level of analysis: the international in the study of state punitiveness. European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 2013, Budapest, Hungary
• Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho (2012) The politics of punishment and the world economy. W. G. Hart Legal Workshop 2012, 2012, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, UK
• Xenakis, Sappho (2012) Assessing the influence of international cooperation on national police culture. American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 2012, Chicago, USA
• Xenakis, Sappho (2012) Governing through organised crime. Statebuilding and State Formation, 2012, Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
• Xenakis, Sappho (2012) Organised crime and the corruption of public bodies in the UK: implications for prison policy and research. Prison Corruption, 2012, Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex, UK
• Xenakis, Sappho (2012) Political stability and extremism in contemporary Greece. The Impact of the Financial Crisis: How Real is the Risk of Political De-stabilisation and the Rise of Extremism: Europe at Risk’ workshop and lecture series, 2012, The Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna, Austria
• Xenakis, Sappho (2012) State and public punitiveness in contemporary Greece. Modern Greek Studies seminar series, 2012, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College, London
• Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L. (2012) Punitiveness after dictatorship: the case of Greece since 1974. Punitiveness after dictatorship: the case of Greece since 1974, 2012, Department of History, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Xenakis, Sappho (2011) Accounting for recurrent cycles of political violence in Greece: limitations of extant analysis. ELIAMEP Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy: Research Seminar, 2011, Athens, Greece
• Xenakis, Sappho (2011) Governance and international co-operation against organised crime: a statist perspective. International Studies Association Annual Conference, 2011, Montreal, Canada
• Xenakis, Sappho (2011) In the eye of the beholder: accounting for the role of emotions in Greek politics. Political Studies Association Annual Conference: Transforming Politics: New Synergies, 2011, London
• Xenakis, Sappho (2011) Reputation and trust in international cooperation against organised crime. Drugs, Organised Crime and State Responses: New Comparative Approaches, 2011, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Xenakis, Sappho (2011) The international securitisation of organised crime: power, knowledge and the primacy of the state. European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 2011, Vilnius, Lithuania
• Cheliotis, L. and Xenakis, Sappho (2010) Towards a political economy of punishment in contemporary Greece. European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 2010, Liège, Belgium
• Xenakis, Sappho (2010) Comparative corruption research and the case of Britain. British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 2010, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
• Xenakis, Sappho (2010) Known unknowns and the role of experts in international cooperation against organised crime. Political Science Association Annual Conference: A European Approach to Organised Crime, 2010, Edinburgh, UK
• Xenakis, Sappho (2010) Organised crime and political violence in contemporary greece. European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 2010, Liège, Belgium
• Xenakis, Sappho (2010) Typologies, perceptions, indices and bias, in comparative corruption analysis. New Forms of Criminality and their Confrontation, 2010, Department of Sociology, Panteion University, Athens, Greece
• Xenakis, Sappho (2009) Perceptions of corruption in the UK: findings of interviews from six target groups. Crime and Culture: A Comparative Study of EU and EU Candidate States, 2009, Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia
• Xenakis, Sappho (2009) Perceptions of corruption: comparative European perspectives. Perceptions of corruption: Comparative European perspectives, 2009, European Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Xenakis, Sappho (2009) Pride and prejudice: a critique of comparative corruption analysis. British International Studies Association Conference, 2009, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
• Xenakis, Sappho (2009) Security policy transfer and the Greek experience. Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy: Research Seminar, 2009, Athens, Greece
• Xenakis, Sappho (2009) The progressive potential of normative hybridity: re-evaluating Balkanist resistance in contemporary Greece. 21st international symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association, 2009, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada
• Xenakis, Sappho (2008) All right Jack? culture, corruption and the British exemplar. All right Jack? culture, corruption and the British exemplar, 2008, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Xenakis, Sappho (2008) Culture in international comparative analysis of corruption. Culture in international comparative analysis of corruption, 2008, Department of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Xenakis, Sappho (2008) Global crime. British Studies Program, University of Southern Mississippi, 2008, King’s College, University of London, London, UK
• Xenakis, Sappho (2008) Hegemony in action: problematising international policy against organised crime. International Guest Lecture Series, 2008, Växjö University, Sweden
• Xenakis, Sappho (2007) Boosting the effectiveness of organised crime counter efforts. The South Caucasus Facing Global Challenges: Drug Trafficking and International Terrorism, 2007, Republic of Georgia
• Xenakis, Sappho (2007) Policy against organised crime in Greece and its transformative role for state-societal relations. 8th Mediterranean Research Meeting: Processes of Europeanisation in the Eastern Mediterranean: Changing Dynamics of State-Societal Relations in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus and the Internationalisation of Policy Regimes, 2007, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
• Xenakis, Sappho (2007) Resisting submission? the obstinacy of 'Balkan' characteristics in Greece as dissidence against 'The West'. The Banality of Good: Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance, 2007, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
• Xenakis, Sappho (2007) The challenge of combating organised crime: lessons from the Balkans. EU and Black Sea Regional Co-operation, 2007, Berlin, Germany
• Xenakis, Sappho (2006) Internationalising a threat assessment of organised crime: history, logic and weaknesses. Political Studies Association Annual Conference, 2006, Reading University
• Xenakis, Sappho (2006) Juxtaposing domestic and regional/international approaches: illicit markets in Greece and contradictory anti-corruption norms in the UK. Corruption, Organised Crime and Economic Restructuring: Regional Perspectives and International Agendas, 2006, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Xenakis, Sappho (2006) Perceptions of corruption in the UK: a study of two cases and six target groups. Crime and Culture: A Comparative Study of EU and EU Candidate States, 2006, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania
• Xenakis, Sappho (2004) The challenge of assessing transnational organised crime in the Balkans. The Management Centre Security Policy Group conference: Security in Southeastern Europe, 2004, Belgrade, Serbia
• Xenakis, Sappho (2003) Defining the challenge of transnational organised criminal activity in the Balkans. Oxford University Balkan Society conference: Balkan Border Crossings, 2003, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Xenakis, Sappho (2003) Greek perspectives on the problem of organised crime in the Balkans. European Stability Initiative's General Meeting, 2003, Berlin, Germany
• Xenakis, Sappho (2003) International versus domestic pressures on the development of organised crime policy: the case of Greece. European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, 2003, Marburg, Germany
• Xenakis, Sappho (2003) The development of Greek policy against transnational organised crime, 1989-2001. The Development of Greek Policy against Transnational Organised Crime, 1989-2001, 2003, Deree College, The American College of Greece, Athens, Greece
• Xenakis, Sappho (2002) Organised crime and state sovereignty in the Balkans. 1st Meeting of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Working Group on the Balkans, 2002, London School of Economics, London, UK
• Xenakis, Sappho (2001) The challenge of organised crime to state sovereignty in the Balkans: an historical approach. Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop, 2001, Harvard University, Boston, USA

Monograph

• Xenakis, Sappho (2008) Domestic elite perceptions of British corruption. Konstanz, Germany: University of Konstanz.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2008) Perceptions of corruption in the United Kingdom: a content analysis of interviews from politics, judiciary, police, media, civil society and economy. Konstanz, Germany: University of Konstanz.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2008) The view from above: interviews with corruption experts in the UK. Konstanz, Germany: University of Konstanz.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2007) The dog(s) that didn't bark: exploring perceptions of corruption in the UK. Konstanz, Germany: University of Konstanz.
• Xenakis, Sappho (2006) Perceptions of corruption in the United Kingdom: a content analysis of documents from politics, judiciary, police, media, civil society and economy. Konstanz, Germany: University of Konstanz.

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