Leonidas K. Cheliotis is an Associate Professor of Criminology in LSE's Department of Social Policy, and Co-Coordinator of the Hellenic Observatory's Society, Identity and Rights Cluster. Between 2019 and 2024, he was the Director of LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology. He has published widely on the politics of crime and criminal justice in Greece. He is currently working on a project focusing on the relationship between economic crisis and different forms of state punishment in interwar and contemporary Greece. He is also co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Criminology in Southern Europe (under contract with Oxford University Press), which will include a range of contributions on the Greek case.

 Research interests: Crime/Criminalisation; Criminal Justice/State Punishment; Immigration; Domestic Politics/Foreign Influence

Dr Cheliotis is currently working on a project focusing on the relationship between economic crisis and different forms of state punishment in interwar and contemporary Greece. He is also co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Criminology in Southern Europe (under contract with Oxford University Press), which will include a range of contributions on the Greek case.