Dr Georgios Papanicolaou

Georgios's research has developed around the following themes:

• the political economy of policing and security; the historical development, organisation and functions of the police in national and transnational context
• the political economy of organised crime, studied in the context of various illegal markets, and particularly in the context of irregular migration, human smuggling and trafficking
• policing, democracy and strategies for innovation and reform.

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• ‘The jeopardy is immense’: Job Insecurity Among Civilian Police Staff in an English Police and Crime Commissioner’s Office, Robinson, P., Ramshaw, P., Papanicolaou, G. 1 Mar 2026, In: International Journal of Police Science and Management
• Zemiology and Decoloniality: Panoptification of Victimhood and Epistemic Violence in Anti-trafficking Reporting, Papanicolaou, G., Dimou, E., Avi, B. 5 Jun 2026, Zemiology Beyond the Critique of Capitalism: Harm, Colonialism and Decolonisation, London, United Kingdom, Routledge
• Constructing ‘indigenous people’ reproducing coloniality’s epistemic violence: a content analysis of the U.S. Trafficking in Persons Report, Boukli, A., Papanicolaou, G., Dimou, E. 30 Apr 2024, Modern slavery in global context, Bristol, Bristol University Press
• The police in neoliberal Greece: Toward a radical confrontation?, Papanicolaou, G., Georgoulas, S. 26 May 2023, No Justice, no police?, Winchester, Zero Books
• Young people and the police during the Covid-19 pandemic: the case of Greece, Papanicolaou, G., Giannaki, D. Oct 2023, Transitions on hold? How the Covid-19 pandemic affected young people’s transitions to autonomy, Strasbourg, France, Council of Europe and European Commission
• “Νόμος και τάξη", αστυνομία και πολιτικά κόμματα μετά τις εκλογές του 2023, Papanicolaou, G. Dec 2023, In: Antigone: the question
• Migration, trafficking and the Greek economy: A comment on ‘the trafficker next-door’, Papanicolaou, G., Antonopoulos, G. 19 Apr 2022, In: Anti-Trafficking Review
• Greece’s Right-Wing Government Is Massively Expanding Police Powers, Papanicolaou, G., Rigakos, G. 3 Apr 2021
• Migrant smuggling and ICT: Research advances, prospects and challenges, Papanicolaou, G., Diba, P., Antonopoulos, G. 7 Dec 2021, Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar
• Η Ελλάδα ως εγκληματολογική πρόκληση: ένα ερευνητικό σχεδίασμα, Papanicolaou, G. 1 Jun 2021, In: Antigone: the question

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• Invited talk: Human Traffickers and the Economy in Greece 2022

Jack Snell Police Governance in a ‘Northern’ Police Force Area: An Investigation into Police and Crime Commissioners and the Political and Organisational Dynamics of the Governance of the Police. Start Date: 01/10/2022

Georgios is

• elected member of the Board of the Greek Society for the Study of Crime and Social Control and member of the editorial collective of the Society's journal Antigone
• member of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control and of the British Society of Criminology

• Criminology PhD December 04 2008
• Criminology MSc December 06 2000
• Criminology LLM December 22 1999
• Law LLB December 20 1996
• Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2016