Local crime prevention policies: a critical approach to methodological and evaluation issues
Zarafonitou Ch., Karagiannidis Ch., Kontopoulou E. Urban Crime -An International Journal, Vol 5 No3, 2024, pp. 4-37
This paper sets its focal point on local crime prevention policies and their methodological context. It combines theoretical exploration with empirical research to achieve an analysis and valuation of the preventive actions based on a community-centered crime prevention approach.
Crime, fear of crime and insecurity during the pandemic: The Greek reality
Zarafonitou Ch., Kontopoulou E., Anitsi, E., Kalamaras D., Urban Crime -An International Journal, Vol 3 No 2, 2022, pp. 4-32
The Covid-19 pandemic that emerged in the beginning of 2020 has been a massive health crisis causing tremendous consequences in all sectors of everyday human life. In this context, it is assumed that such a health crisis along with the imposition of the various restrictive measures to reduce the spread of the virus, have had a profound impact on crime and fear of crime worldwide.
Environmental degradation and fear of crime. The research evidence in the center of Athens
Zarafonitou Ch. & Kontopoulou E., Urban Crime -An International Journal, Vol. I No 1 June 2020, pp. 3-33
Environmental factors are of crucial importance for the study of the criminal phenomenon. Within the scientific field of Environmental Criminology, the criminological interest is not limited in the study of victimisation and criminality, but it is also extended to fear of crime and insecurity in the urban environment.
Collaboration between the 2nd Avlona Gymnasium & Lyceum classes in the Avlona Prison for Young Offenders and thr programme of postgraduate studies "Criminology " of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Illegal immigration, the perception of ghettos and the fear of crime in the center of Athens
Christina Zarafonitou, Professor of Criminology, Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Panteion University, Athens, Greece
Victims’ insecurity and criminal policy: The role of victim’s support services
Christina Zarafonitou, Professor of Criminology, Department of Sociology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens-Greece
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Rivista di Criminologia, Vittimologia e Sicurezza, VIII (1), pp. 121-134
New Forms of Policing and the Feeling of (Un)Safety Among the Shopkeepers in Athens and Piraeus
Criminology Special Issue October 2011 (Nomiki Vivliothiki Publ.)
Christina Zarafonitou, Professor of Criminology, Department of Sociology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.
Research on fear of crime began in the 1960 and continued with an ever increasing interest, so that the 1980s to be considered as its ‘golden age’.
Punitiveness, fear of crime and social views
Christina M. Zarafonitou. in Kury, H., Shea, E. (Eds.) Punitiveness – worldwide perspectives, Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr. Brockmeyer, 2011, pp. 269-294.
This paper focuses on different aspects/dimensions of punitiveness and on the differentiation of the factors correlated with them. Specifically, the punitiveness which is expressed as a demand of making penal sanctions harsher appears to be correlated with the insecurity which stems from “traditional” criminality.
Fear of crime in contemporary Greece: Research evidence
Christina M. Zarafonitou. Criminology (special issue), October 2011, p 50-63.
Fear of crime is considered as a complex social phenomenon with important consequences at both personal and societal level. Its semantic boundaries remain unclear and the pursuit of its definition results in a skepticism concerning its conceptualisation.
Criminology as a discipline in modern Greece: Teaching, Research and Profession
Christina M. Zarafonitou. in Sette R. (edited by), Cases on Technologies for Teaching Criminology and Victimology: Methodologies and Practices, Hershey, PA (USA), IGI Global, 2009, pp.49-65.
Although in Greece the publication of books of criminological interest began in the last decades of the 19th century, the subject of Criminology was introduced by Professor Konstantinos Gardikas first at Athens University in 1930 and, then, at Panteios School of Social and Political Sciences in 1932. Some years later, in 1938, the chair of Criminology and Penology was established at the University of Athens. In our days, Criminology is taught mainly at the schools of Law and of Sociology and there is a special Section of Criminology in the Department of Sociology at Panteion University.
Criminal Victimisation in Greece and the Fear of Crime: A 'Paradox' for Interpretation
Christina M. Zarafonitou, International Review of Victimology, 16 (3), 2009, 277-300.
The measurement of victimisation was rare and sporadic in Greece until 2005 when it was included in the EU International Crime Survey (EUICS). Many findings are highly interesting as for example those concerning corruption.
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