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Sappho Xenakis

Positions held:
  • Reader in Criminology and International Relations, School of Social Sciences
  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Sappho Xenakis is a Reader in Criminology and International Relations and Co-Director (Social Sciences) of 糖心logo入口's cross-disciplinary .

    Between 2017-2023, she was Assistant Dean for Research of 糖心logo入口 School of Law.

    Sappho's聽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.

    Sappho holds undergraduate and masters degrees in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford. Her masters and doctoral degrees were supported by awards from the Economic and Social Research Council, and she was also a recipient of a doctoral fellowship from the Onassis Foundation in Greece.

    Prior to taking up her position at 糖心logo入口 in 2013, Sappho held Marie Curie European Union Fellowships at the Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Penal Institutions (CESDIP), connected to the Universit茅 de Versailles (UVSQ), in Paris, and at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens. She also held a postdoctoral fellowship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY).

    Sappho has taught at a number of institutions in the UK and internationally, including as an LSE Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and at the University of Oxford.

    Office hours

    Flexible and online - please email me to arrange a convenient time.


    Web profiles

    Administrative responsibilities

    • Co-Director (Law), Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies (CPEIS)
    • Convenor, 糖心logo入口 Criminology Seminar Series
    • Programme Director, MPhil/PhD in Criminology
    • Acting Programme Director, Masters programmes in Criminology (Spring Term 2024)

    Visiting posts

    • Visiting Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Reading, 01 September 2022 to 01 July 2025

    Honours and awards

    • Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award Critical Criminal Justice Section, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, September 2018
    • Young Criminologist Award European Society of Criminology, September 2011

    ORCID

  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • international criminology: comparative and transnational perspectives on crime and crime control
    • political economies of crime and punishment
    • corruption, white-collar crime, state-corporate crime, state-corporate surveillance

    Research overview

    My research explores the relationship between national, transnational and global forces behind the emergence and evolution of criminal justice policies.

    My research has largely focused on state punishment, and on efforts to counter organised and white-collar crime.

    On punishment, my work has explored its multidimensionality and its intersections with disciplinary practices more generally.

    As regards organised crime, my work has聽addressed the聽international development and diffusion of policy, particularly聽that pertaining to聽the combatting of human trafficking and the illicit narcotics trade. Relatedly, I have also conducted research exploring the politics and practices of international police training.

    Research Centres and Institutes

    • Co-Director,

    Research clusters and groups

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    Supervisions external to 糖心logo入口:
    1
    Supervisions within 糖心logo入口:
    2

    I welcome enquiries from prospective doctoral and postdoctoral students who are seeking to undertake聽a project in an area that aligns with any of my own, and especially those relating to the field of the political economy of crime and punishment, broadly conceived.聽

    Equally, I am happy to support聽those聽seeking to apply for postgraduate and postdoctoral funding to support such projects.聽

    Doctoral alumni since 2013-14

    • MARTINA BARADEL
      Nature of supervision:
      Principal Supervisor,
      Awarded:
      2020
    • ADIMAYA KENI
      Nature of supervision:
      Joint Principal Supervisor, to
      Awarded:
      2024

    Teaching

    I am Global Criminology Pathway Lead for the MSc Criminology programme, and convene the following modules:

    Global Perspectives on Crime and Crime Control

    White-Collar and Corporate Crime

    State Crime

    Understanding Crime

     

    Teaching modules

    • Social Sciences Doctoral Seminar
    • Global Perspectives on Crime and Crime Control
    • Crimes of the Powerful (Level 5)
    • What is Crime?
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Xenakis, Sappho (2022) . European Journal of Criminology 19 (3), pp. 332-348. ISSN 1477-3708.
    • Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2022) . Critical Criminology ISSN 1205-8629.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2021) . Trends in Organized Crime 24, pp. 6-22. ISSN 1084-4791.
    • Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho (2021) . European Journal of Criminology 18 (1), pp. 74-100. ISSN 1477-3708.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2021) . International Criminology 1 (1), pp. 78-85. ISSN 2662-9976.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2021) . Journal of Historical Sociology 34 (3), pp. 504-516. ISSN 0952-1909.
    • Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2019) . Punishment & Society 21 (2), pp. 187-206. ISSN 1462-4745.
    • Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L. (2018) . Crime, Law and Social Change 70 (1), pp. 37-56. ISSN 0925-4994.
    • Xenakis, Sappho and Ivanov, K. (2017) . Critical Criminology 25 (3), pp. 433-452. ISSN 1205-8629.
    • Cheliotis, L. and Xenakis, Sappho (2016) . Punishment and Society 18 (3), pp. 268-300. ISSN 1462-4745.
    • Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2016) . European Journal of Criminology 13 (5), pp. 639-656. ISSN 1477-3708.
    • Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2013) . European Journal of Criminology 10 (3), pp. 297-313. ISSN 1477-3708.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2013) . Journal of Modern Greek Studies 31 (2), pp. 171-192. ISSN 0738-1727.
    • Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2013) . British Journal of Criminology ISSN 0007-0955.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2013) . OpenDemocracy
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2013) . OpenDemocracy
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2013) . Penal Issues ISSN 1155-4169.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2012) . Terrorism and Political Violence 24 (3), pp. 437-464. ISSN 0954-6553.
    • Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2012) . OpenDemocracy
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2011) . 螘蠁伪蟻渭慰纬苇蟼 螖畏渭慰蟽委慰蠀 螖喂魏伪委慰蠀 24 (2), pp. 137-145. ISSN 1106-0549.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2011) . Criminology in Europe: Newsletter of the European Society of Criminology 12 (3), pp. 3-5. ISSN 1729-8164.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2010) . Crime, Law and Social Change 54 (1), pp. 39-61. ISSN 0925-4994.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2010) . ELIAMEP Thesis
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2004) . Global Crime 6 (3-4), pp. 345-373. ISSN 1744-0572.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (1998) . RUSI Newsbrief 18 (9), pp. 67-70.

    Book

    • Lacey, N. and Soskice, D. and Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho, eds. (2021) . Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197266922.
    • Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho, eds. (2011) . Oxford, UK: Peter Lang. ISBN 9783039115624.

    Book section

    • Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2021) . 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.
    • Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho (2021) . 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. (2020) . 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) . 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) . 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) . 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) . In: Tsilimpounidi, M. and Walsh, A. (eds.) http://www.zero-books.net/books/remapping-crisis-guide-athens. Zero Books. ISBN 9781780996059.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2012) . 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) . In: Gonzalez Sanchez, I. (ed.) Teor铆a social, marginalidad urbana y estado penal: Aproximaciones al trabajo de Lo茂c Wacquant. Colecci贸n Estudios de Criminolog铆a y Pol铆tica Criminal. Madrid, Spain: Dykinson. pp. 365-400. ISSN 1748-8958. ISBN 9788415454298.
    • Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho (2011) . 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) . 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) . 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) . 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 (2010) . 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 (2009) . 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) . 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) . In: Fati膰, A. (ed.) Security in Southeastern Europe. The Management Centre. ISBN 9788683289042.

    Conference item

    • Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L. (2015) . The Colonels鈥 Dictatorship and Its Afterlives, 2015, Columbia University
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2014) . Corruption in Commercial Enterprise Research Network, 2014, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2013) . Responding to Uprising: Urban Security Between Resilience and Resistance, 2013, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2013) . European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 2013, Budapest, Hungary
    • Cheliotis, L. and Xenakis, Sappho (2013) . European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 2013, Budapest, Hungary
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2013) . Regional Training on Researching Police Corruption, 2013, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Belgrade, Serbia
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2012) . Prison Corruption, 2012, Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex, UK
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2012) . Statebuilding and State Formation, 2012, Sant鈥 Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
    • Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L. (2012) . Punitiveness after dictatorship: the case of Greece since 1974, 2012, Department of History, University of California, San Diego, USA
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2012) . The Impact of the Financial Crisis: How Real is the Risk of Political De-stabilisation and the Rise of Extremism: Europe at Risk鈥 workshop and lecture series, 2012, The Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna, Austria
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2012) . Modern Greek Studies seminar series, 2012, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King鈥檚 College, London
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2012) . American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 2012, Chicago, USA
    • Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, Sappho (2012) . W. G. Hart Legal Workshop 2012, 2012, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, UK
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2011) . Drugs, Organised Crime and State Responses: New Comparative Approaches, 2011, St. Antony鈥檚 College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2011) . European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 2011, Vilnius, Lithuania
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2011) . ELIAMEP Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy: Research Seminar, 2011, Athens, Greece
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2011) . Political Studies Association Annual Conference: Transforming Politics: New Synergies, 2011, London
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2011) . International Studies Association Annual Conference, 2011, Montreal, Canada
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2010) . New Forms of Criminality and their Confrontation, 2010, Department of Sociology, Panteion University, Athens, Greece
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2010) . European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 2010, Li猫ge, Belgium
    • Cheliotis, L. and Xenakis, Sappho (2010) . European Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 2010, Li猫ge, Belgium
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2010) . British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, 2010, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2010) . Political Science Association Annual Conference: A European Approach to Organised Crime, 2010, Edinburgh, UK
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2009) . British International Studies Association Conference, 2009, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2009) . 21st international symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association, 2009, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2009) . Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy: Research Seminar, 2009, Athens, Greece
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2009) . Perceptions of corruption: Comparative European perspectives, 2009, European Studies Centre, St. Antony鈥檚 College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2009) . Crime and Culture: A Comparative Study of EU and EU Candidate States, 2009, Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2008) . Culture in international comparative analysis of corruption, 2008, Department of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2008) . British Studies Program, University of Southern Mississippi, 2008, King鈥檚 College, University of London, London, UK
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2008) . International Guest Lecture Series, 2008, V盲xj枚 University, Sweden
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2008) . All right Jack? culture, corruption and the British exemplar, 2008, Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2007) . The South Caucasus Facing Global Challenges: Drug Trafficking and International Terrorism, 2007, Republic of Georgia
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2007) . EU and Black Sea Regional Co-operation, 2007, Berlin, Germany
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2007) . The Banality of Good: Roots, Rites and Sites of Resistance, 2007, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2007) . 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 (2006) . Crime and Culture: A Comparative Study of EU and EU Candidate States, 2006, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2006) . Corruption, Organised Crime and Economic Restructuring: Regional Perspectives and International Agendas, 2006, St. Antony鈥檚 College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2006) . Political Studies Association Annual Conference, 2006, Reading University
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2004) . The Management Centre Security Policy Group conference: Security in Southeastern Europe, 2004, Belgrade, Serbia
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2003) . European Stability Initiative's General Meeting, 2003, Berlin, Germany
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2003) . The Development of Greek Policy against Transnational Organised Crime, 1989-2001, 2003, Deree College, The American College of Greece, Athens, Greece
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2003) . Oxford University Balkan Society conference: Balkan Border Crossings, 2003, St. Antony鈥檚 College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2003) . European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, 2003, Marburg, Germany
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2002) . 1st Meeting of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Working Group on the Balkans, 2002, London School of Economics, London, UK
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2001) . Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop, 2001, Harvard University, Boston, USA

    Monograph

    • Xenakis, Sappho (2008) . Konstanz, Germany: University of Konstanz.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2008) . Konstanz, Germany: University of Konstanz.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2008) . Konstanz, Germany: University of Konstanz.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2007) . Konstanz, Germany: University of Konstanz.
    • Xenakis, Sappho (2006) . Konstanz, Germany: University of Konstanz.

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