Laboratory Objective
The Laboratory of Critical Criminological Study and Research (EKEME) serves, from the perspective of critical criminology, the educational and research needs in the cognitive fields of study of forms of crime in contemporary society, the experiences and effects of victimization and social harm, social control processes, and the implementation of new models of crime-control policy.
Specifically, the Laboratory of Critical Criminological Study and Research (EKEME) has the following mission:
- To fulfill the teaching/educational and research needs of the Department, as well as other departments of the University of the Aegean, at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in subjects that are within the scope of the Laboratory's fields of expertise.
- To support lifelong learning programs organized by the University of the Aegean or other organizations on topics related to the teaching and research subjects of the Laboratory.
- To organize self-funded educational programs for social scientists in its areas of research.
- To conduct research (design, collection, analysis) and documentation of quantitative and qualitative data in specific fields of study.
- To support doctoral and postdoctoral research in related scientific fields.
- To attract funded research from national and international sources in scientific fields of activity of the Laboratory or specific fields of expertise of its members.
- To promote teaching and research collaborations with research centers and academic institutions in Greece and abroad.
- To collaborate with broader public sector agencies, local government agencies, scientific, social, and professional agencies, international institutions or organizations, as well as productive entities in the private sector in related research and scientific fields.
- To organize scientific lectures, workshops, seminars, symposiums, conferences, and other scientific events.
- To provide services as provided for in Presidential Decree 159/1984 (A'53).
- To provide and disseminate modern educational and research material such as the publication of articles, journals, books, and collective volumes in printed and/or electronic form.
Publications
Paraskevopoulos, D. and Mourzidou, E. (2025). The Narrative of Crime in Cinema. The Case of the Movie Joker. In Vidali, S., Gasparinatou, M., Georgoulas, S., Themeli, O., Kasapoglou, A., Koros, D., Koulouris, N.K., Kouroutzas, Ch., Papanikolaou, G., Petsas, G., Spyrea, S. and Stamouli, Eir. [eds.], Social reality, critical discourse and criminal phenomenon: contributions to the 2nd conference of the E.E.M.E.K.E.. (pp. 780-798). Athens: Hellenic Society for the Study of Crime and Social Control.
2025
Passas, N., Georgoulas, S., Kouroutzas, C., Paraskevopoulos, D. (2025). State-corporate crime, systemic risk, and governance failures in mass transportation: Insights from the Tempi train tragedy. J Illicit Trade Financ Crime Compli, 1, 89-105
2025
Georgoulas, S. Passas, N. Kouroutzas, H. & Paraskevopoulos, D. (2025). State-corporate crimes and risks in public transport: The case of the Tempi railway tragedy. Antigone: the question, Volume V, issue 9-10, 53-88.
2025
Paraskevopoulos, D. Syrmali, M.E. Kouroutzas, H. Leros, K. Georgoulas, S. (2024). Generation Z and the fluid world of trap in the era of multiple crises. In K. Theodoridis (Ed.) Consumption, youth and digital media. Sociological and cultural approaches (pp. 44-74). Athens: nisos.
2024
Kouroutzas, C. & Palamari, V. (2024). Opening the black boxes of the black carpet in the era of risk society: A sociological analysis of AI, algorithms and big data at work through the case study of the Greek postal services. AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-01916-0
2024
Kouroutzas, H. Paraskevopoulos, D. Leros, K. Syrmali, M.E. Georgoulas, S. (2024). Liquid worlds in dating apps: Uncertain relationships towards «consumption» in the era of «emotional capitalism». In K. Theodoridis (Ed.) Consumption, youth and digital media. Sociological and cultural approaches (pp. 128-162). Athens: island.
2024
Kouroutzas, H. Paraskevopoulos, D. Leros, K. (2024). Displacements, «Unwanted Mobilities», Enclosed Bodies in Gray Zones: The Refugee-Migration Issue in Post-Modern Societies of Risk and Uncertainty. In G. Kokkinos, E. Lemonidou (Eds.) Incarcerations and History (pp. 235-254). Athens: Pedio.
2024
Georgoulas, S., Kouroutzas, H. and Paraskevopoulos, D. (2024). Borders, insularization policies and state-corporate crimes in refugee management. In E. Stamoulis and M. Gasparinatou (Eds.), Crimes of the Powerful. Theory and Reality (pp. 145-179). Athens: Place.
2024
Paraskevopoulos, D. (2023). Introduction to the Sociology of Emotions: Theory and Research Methods. Athens: Pedio Publications. ISBN: 978-960-635-546-2
2023
Papanicolaou, G. & Georgoulas, S., (2023), No Justice, no police?: The politics of protest and social change. Clement, M. (ed.). Winchester: Zero Books, p. 289-299.
2023
Stamouli, E. & Gasparinatou, M., & Kouroutzas, C. (2023). Corruption as state – corporate crime: The example of the health sector in Greece. Trends in Organized Crime, 26, 258–292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-022-09479-6
2023
Stamouli, E. & Gasparinatou, M., & Kouroutzas, C. (2023). Corruption and public procurement in the health sector: the challenges of the pandemic era in Greece. Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/2631309X231157846
2023
Georgoulas, S., Kouroutzas, H. and Paraskevopoulos, D. (2023 under publication). Borders, insularization policies and state-corporate crimes in the management of the refugee crisis. In E. Stamoulis and M. Gasparinatou (Eds.), Corruption and state-corporate crime: Theoretical issues and practical implications. Athens: Place.
2023
Georgoulas, S., (2023). "For a radical criminology of the future", In Demertzis, N. and Charalambi, N. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 8th Regular Conference of the Hellenic Sociological Society "Societies and Sociologies in the 21st Century"«. Athens: Hellenic Sociological Society. ISBN: 978-960-9596-06-0
2023
Georgoulas, S. (2022). Crimes of neocolonialism in modern Palestine: land and freedom, International Journal of Social Science and Public Policy, VOL: 4, ISSUE: 2, February/2022, https://ijssppnet.com/, E-ISSN: 2663-7200, DOI: 10.33642/ijsspp.v4n2p1
2022
Georgoulas, S. (2022). The collection of dry branches (law on the theft of wood) and the genesis of radical criminology, Antigone the question, Volume II, issue, 3, pp. 84-96.
2022
Georgoulas, S. (2022). Crimes of neocolonialism in Palestine: land and freedom In Hellenic Sociological Society Proceedings 7th Conference "“Post-crisis societies, crisis-free societies?;”.
2022
Georgoulas, E. (2022), Crimes of neocolonialism in Palestine: land and freedom, In the proceedings of the 7th Regular Conference of the Hellenic Sociological Society (H.S.S.): Post-crisis societies, crisis-free societies; Athens 23-25 September 2020. Department of Communication and Media of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA).
2022
Gasparinatou, M., Stamouli, E. & Kouroutzas, X. (2022). The institutionalization of corruption in the Greek healthcare system: a persistent state-facilitated crime, Antigone: The question, II (3), pp. 8-38.
2022
Kouroutzas, C. & Paraskevopoulos, D. (2022). Book Review: Stratos Georgoulas, The Origins of Radical Criminology. From Homer to Pre-Socratic Philosophy. Vol. I. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, xiii+182 pp. and Stratos Georgoulas, The Origins of Radical Criminology. From Classical Greece to Early Christianity, Vol. II. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, xiii+198 pp. Class and Status, 1 , pp. 159-162.
2022
Georgoulas, S. (2022). The Origins of Radical Criminology, Volume III. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05925-4_10
2022
Georgoulas, S. (2022). Crimes of neocolonialism in modern Palestine: land and freedom. International Journal of Social Science and Public Policy (IJSSPP) https://doi.org/10.33642/ijsspp.v4n2p1
2022
Georgoulas, S. (2021). Radical thinking about crime and the Greek revolution. In Kaltsonis, D. (Ed.) Revolution, Crisis, Revolution? Greece from 1821 to 2021. Athens: Topos.
2021
Georgoulas, S. (2021). Sources of radical criminological thought in modern Greece (1830-1975). Antigone, the question. Issue 1ο , pp. 8-24