Leonidas K Cheliotis
Biographic Data
| ID | 329552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leonidas K Cheliotis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leonidas K |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheliotis |
| SIGNATURE | CHELIOTIS L K |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2707-853X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Manufacturing concern: Inside Richard Nixon’s “law and order” campaign
With a view to contributing to an in-depth understanding of political engagement with public opinion about crime or cognate issues in the United States, this article dissects how Richard Nixon and his inner circle dealt with citizens’ views on what he collectively termed “law and order,” both during his 1968 presidential campaign and his first term in office. Based on novel data from heretofore unused or otherwise underused archival sources, the …
Centering race in procedural justice theory: Structural racism and the under- and overpolicing of Black communities
OBJECTIVE: We assessed the factors that legitimized the police in the United States at an important moment of history, just after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. We also evaluated one way of incorporating perceptions of systemic racism into procedural justice theory. HYPOTHESES: We tested two primary hypotheses. The first hypothesis was that perceptions of police procedural justice, distributive justice, and bounded authority were imp…
Depression and repression: Global capitalism, economic crisis and penal politics in interwar Greece
Notwithstanding the significant advances made over the last twenty years in terms of charting and explaining the ways in which state punishment is influenced by economic and political forces, little is still known about the penal effects of conditions of economic crisis and about the role the incumbent government's political orientation plays in this regard. Because the few available studies on these questions have been preoccupied with the Anglo…
Expendable Lives: Race and Segmented Representation in the Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States
One of the most enduring debates in the study of the evolution of criminal justice policy in the United States concerns the role of public opinion. Two viewpoints have thus far dominated pertinent scholarship, with one claiming that criminal justice policy has been genuinely responsive to changes in public opinion, and the other suggesting that incumbent administrations have simulated responsiveness to public attitudes toward criminal justice whi…
What’s Left? Political orientation, economic conditions and incarceration in Greece under Syriza-led government
An important body of scholarly work has been produced over recent decades to explain variation in levels and patterns of state punishment across and within different countries around the world. Two variables that have curiously evaded systematic attention in this regard are, first, the orientation of incumbent governments along the political spectrum, and second, the experience and fiscal implications of national economic downturn. Although recen…
Uneasy partnerships: Prisoner re-entry, family problems and state coercion in the era of neoliberalism
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are released from prison every year. Drawing on interviews conducted in the mid-2010s in the context of the Multi-site Family Study on Parenting, Partnering and Incarceration, this article explores how the strains of prisoner re-entry interact with those of poverty and family life, and how these combined strains condition proactive engagement with the legal system among re-entering individuals and their intimate…
Crimmigrant Nations: Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders
Neither dupes, nor pipers: Violent crime, public sentiment and the political origins of mass incarceration in the United States
One of the most contentious questions in contemporary penology is why the use of imprisonment started rising rapidly in the United States in the early 1970s. The two dominant perspectives on the subject focus on crime's public salience and how it relates to violent crime and political elites, respectively. The first perspective holds that incumbent political elites promoted tougher criminal justice policies in the name of a public concern about v…
Whither neoliberal penality? The past, present and future of imprisonment in the US
Debates about the trajectory of prison rates in the US, on one hand, and about the prospects of the neoliberal international order, on the other hand, suggest the time is ripe for a reappraisal of penological scholarship on the relationship between neoliberalism and imprisonment. With the aim of responding to this challenge, this article considers the relevance of the so-called ‘neoliberal penality thesis’ as a framework through which to interpre…
Punishment and political systems: State punitiveness in post-dictatorial Greece
Extant research on the relationship between political systems and state punitiveness has so far paid little attention to the impact that transition from one political system to another may have upon levels and patterns of state punitiveness. This risks not only exaggerating the degree to which given trends in state punitiveness are distinct to particular political systems but also overlooking the legacy that punitive policies, practices or experi…
Introduction: Democratisation and punishment
Gobernar a través del espejo Neoliberalismo, gerencialismo y psicopolítica del control de la desviación
El objetivo de este articulo es realizar una contribucion epistemologica y sustantiva al estudio de la punitividad. En terminos epistemologicos, se reclama el recurso al psicoanalisis, en especial a la orientacion materialista de Erich Fromm. En terminos sustantivos, mediante la puesta en relacion de la teoria psicoanalitica de Fromm con las perspectivas de Economia politica del castigo contemporaneo, el objetivo es indagar los modos en los que l…
Our Violence and Theirs: Comparing Prison Realities
Severe conditions of imprisonment have contributed to a rise in the frequency and seriousness of unrest in Greek prisons over recent decades. Drawing on fieldwork material collected in the largest and most overcrowded prison for men in Greece, this article explores how prison authorities used the prospect of temporary release as a means of incentivizing conformist behavior among prisoners. It is argued that the effectiveness of this seemingly str…
Order Through Honor: Masculinity and the Use of Temporary Release in a Greek Prison
Severe conditions of imprisonment have contributed to a rise in the frequency and seriousness of unrest in Greek prisons over recent decades. Drawing on fieldwork material collected in the largest and most overcrowded prison for men in Greece, this article explores how prison authorities used the prospect of temporary release as a means of incentivizing conformist behavior among prisoners. It is argued that the effectiveness of this seemingly str…
Neoliberal capitalism and middle-class punitiveness: Bringing Erich Fromm’s ‘materialistic psychoanalysis’ to penology
Why is it that imprisonment has undergone an explosive growth in the USA and Britain over the last three decades against the background of falling crime rates in both countries? And why has this development met with a significant and escalating degree of support among the public? To the extent that governing elites on either side of the Atlantic have been eliciting public support for their authority by inducing concerns about issues of crime and …
Crime and Economic Downturn: The Complexity of Crime and Crime Politics in Greece since 2009
Description and explanation of the relationship between economic downturn and crime have to date been limited by the narrow scope of criminal activity characteristically selected as a focus by pertinent criminological scholarship. Efforts to examine the relationship have overwhelmingly approached it through the prism of common property and violent offences, or, and to a lesser degree, white-collar crime. As a consequence, appreciation has been im…
For a Freudo-Marxist critique of social domination: Rediscovering Erich Fromm through the mirror of Pierre Bourdieu
This article aims to make a case and set the foundations for retrieving Erich Fromm’s Freudo-Marxist theory of action and his approach to social domination in particular. To this end, Frommian psychoanalysis is compared with the ‘socio-analysis’ of Pierre Bourdieu. As far as method is concerned, whereas Bourdieu focuses attention on the socio-political processes of production and reproduction of the perceptive structures that individuals and grou…
Violence and Narcissism: A Frommian Perspective on Destructiveness under Authoritarianism
This article offers a sympathetic appraisal of Erich Fromm's conceptualisation of narcissism as it relates to the emergence, sustenance, and resolution of authoritarian violence. The discussion is first placed within the methodological debate over the analytic operations that are required for an adequate understanding of authoritarian violence, explaining why a psychoanalytic perspective is necessary. The focus then shifts to Fromm's take on the …
Preface to the special issue: Neoliberalism and penality: Reflections on the work of Loïc Wacquant
What’s neoliberalism got to do with it? Towards a political economy of punishment in Greece
SAGE copyright policy clearly states that the co-authors 'may not post the final version of the article as published by SAGE or the SAGEâ created PDF â â version 3â . Thus we cannot achieve the submitted (SAGE.pdf) version
The ambivalent consequences of visibility: Crime and prisons in the mass media
This article aims to demonstrate that, despite their potential for cultivating communitarianism and deliberative democracy on a large scale, the mass media contribute decisively to the formation of punitiveness amongst the public by means of selective semiotic aestheticisation. They overstate the problem of crime; put the blame on marginalised cohorts and level heavy criticism against the administration of prisons purportedly for laxity; issue ur…
The Sociospatial Mechanics of Domination: Transcending the ‘Exclusion/Inclusion’ Dualism
Demystifying risk management: A process evaluation of the prisoners’ home leave scheme in Greece
This article explores the factors considered by the Greek prison authorities in administering the home leave scheme. It is shown that the administration of the programme is significantly guided by exogenous factors like media pressure, mounting demand for rationality and accountability and populist considerations on the part of the superior officers at the Ministry of Justice, subsequently reflected upon personal concerns like the possible advers…
How iron is the iron cage of new penology: The role of human agency in the implementation of criminal justice policy
This article addresses the extent to which the concept of ‘new penology’ is helpful in understanding penal currents, particularly as they relate to the older paradigms of retribution and rehabilitation. In the light of theoretical, historical and empirical evidence, support is lent to the arguments: that the new penology thesis downplays the role of human agency at the level of implementing criminal justice policies; that it ignores the potential…
Race Matters in British Prisons
How iron is the iron cage of new penology: The role of human agency in the implementation of criminal justice policy
This article addresses the extent to which the concept of ‘new penology’ is helpful in understanding penal currents, particularly as they relate to the older paradigms of retribution and rehabilitation. In the light of theoretical, historical and empirical evidence, support is lent to the arguments: that the new penology thesis downplays the role of human agency at the level of implementing criminal justice policies; that it ignores the potential…
Crimmigrant Nations: Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders
Neoliberal capitalism and middle-class punitiveness: Bringing Erich Fromm’s ‘materialistic psychoanalysis’ to penology
Why is it that imprisonment has undergone an explosive growth in the USA and Britain over the last three decades against the background of falling crime rates in both countries? And why has this development met with a significant and escalating degree of support among the public? To the extent that governing elites on either side of the Atlantic have been eliciting public support for their authority by inducing concerns about issues of crime and …
The ambivalent consequences of visibility: Crime and prisons in the mass media
This article aims to demonstrate that, despite their potential for cultivating communitarianism and deliberative democracy on a large scale, the mass media contribute decisively to the formation of punitiveness amongst the public by means of selective semiotic aestheticisation. They overstate the problem of crime; put the blame on marginalised cohorts and level heavy criticism against the administration of prisons purportedly for laxity; issue ur…
Uneasy partnerships: Prisoner re-entry, family problems and state coercion in the era of neoliberalism
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are released from prison every year. Drawing on interviews conducted in the mid-2010s in the context of the Multi-site Family Study on Parenting, Partnering and Incarceration, this article explores how the strains of prisoner re-entry interact with those of poverty and family life, and how these combined strains condition proactive engagement with the legal system among re-entering individuals and their intimate…
Whither neoliberal penality? The past, present and future of imprisonment in the US
Debates about the trajectory of prison rates in the US, on one hand, and about the prospects of the neoliberal international order, on the other hand, suggest the time is ripe for a reappraisal of penological scholarship on the relationship between neoliberalism and imprisonment. With the aim of responding to this challenge, this article considers the relevance of the so-called ‘neoliberal penality thesis’ as a framework through which to interpre…
Race Matters in British Prisons
Order Through Honor: Masculinity and the Use of Temporary Release in a Greek Prison
Severe conditions of imprisonment have contributed to a rise in the frequency and seriousness of unrest in Greek prisons over recent decades. Drawing on fieldwork material collected in the largest and most overcrowded prison for men in Greece, this article explores how prison authorities used the prospect of temporary release as a means of incentivizing conformist behavior among prisoners. It is argued that the effectiveness of this seemingly str…
Punishment and political systems: State punitiveness in post-dictatorial Greece
Extant research on the relationship between political systems and state punitiveness has so far paid little attention to the impact that transition from one political system to another may have upon levels and patterns of state punitiveness. This risks not only exaggerating the degree to which given trends in state punitiveness are distinct to particular political systems but also overlooking the legacy that punitive policies, practices or experi…
Introduction: Democratisation and punishment
Crime and Economic Downturn: The Complexity of Crime and Crime Politics in Greece since 2009
Description and explanation of the relationship between economic downturn and crime have to date been limited by the narrow scope of criminal activity characteristically selected as a focus by pertinent criminological scholarship. Efforts to examine the relationship have overwhelmingly approached it through the prism of common property and violent offences, or, and to a lesser degree, white-collar crime. As a consequence, appreciation has been im…
For a Freudo-Marxist critique of social domination: Rediscovering Erich Fromm through the mirror of Pierre Bourdieu
This article aims to make a case and set the foundations for retrieving Erich Fromm’s Freudo-Marxist theory of action and his approach to social domination in particular. To this end, Frommian psychoanalysis is compared with the ‘socio-analysis’ of Pierre Bourdieu. As far as method is concerned, whereas Bourdieu focuses attention on the socio-political processes of production and reproduction of the perceptive structures that individuals and grou…
Violence and Narcissism: A Frommian Perspective on Destructiveness under Authoritarianism
This article offers a sympathetic appraisal of Erich Fromm's conceptualisation of narcissism as it relates to the emergence, sustenance, and resolution of authoritarian violence. The discussion is first placed within the methodological debate over the analytic operations that are required for an adequate understanding of authoritarian violence, explaining why a psychoanalytic perspective is necessary. The focus then shifts to Fromm's take on the …
What’s neoliberalism got to do with it? Towards a political economy of punishment in Greece
SAGE copyright policy clearly states that the co-authors 'may not post the final version of the article as published by SAGE or the SAGEâ created PDF â â version 3â . Thus we cannot achieve the submitted (SAGE.pdf) version
Manufacturing concern: Inside Richard Nixon’s “law and order” campaign
With a view to contributing to an in-depth understanding of political engagement with public opinion about crime or cognate issues in the United States, this article dissects how Richard Nixon and his inner circle dealt with citizens’ views on what he collectively termed “law and order,” both during his 1968 presidential campaign and his first term in office. Based on novel data from heretofore unused or otherwise underused archival sources, the …
The Sociospatial Mechanics of Domination: Transcending the ‘Exclusion/Inclusion’ Dualism
Demystifying risk management: A process evaluation of the prisoners’ home leave scheme in Greece
This article explores the factors considered by the Greek prison authorities in administering the home leave scheme. It is shown that the administration of the programme is significantly guided by exogenous factors like media pressure, mounting demand for rationality and accountability and populist considerations on the part of the superior officers at the Ministry of Justice, subsequently reflected upon personal concerns like the possible advers…
The prison furlough programme in Greece: Findings from a research project in the Male Prison of Korydallos
Although the prison furlough programme in Greece was first implemented in 1990, it has received little academic attention ever since. In an effort to fill that gap, this article reflects on some of the main aspects of the programme and poses some key research questions. To what extent do furloughed prisoners fail to return to the establishment on time? What is the proportion of those who fail to return at all? Why are foreign applicants less like…
The prison furlough programme in Greece: Findings from a research project in the Male Prison of Korydallos
Although the prison furlough programme in Greece was first implemented in 1990, it has received little academic attention ever since. In an effort to fill that gap, this article reflects on some of the main aspects of the programme and poses some key research questions. To what extent do furloughed prisoners fail to return to the establishment on time? What is the proportion of those who fail to return at all? Why are foreign applicants less like…
Demystifying risk management: A process evaluation of the prisoners’ home leave scheme in Greece
This article explores the factors considered by the Greek prison authorities in administering the home leave scheme. It is shown that the administration of the programme is significantly guided by exogenous factors like media pressure, mounting demand for rationality and accountability and populist considerations on the part of the superior officers at the Ministry of Justice, subsequently reflected upon personal concerns like the possible advers…
How iron is the iron cage of new penology: The role of human agency in the implementation of criminal justice policy
This article addresses the extent to which the concept of ‘new penology’ is helpful in understanding penal currents, particularly as they relate to the older paradigms of retribution and rehabilitation. In the light of theoretical, historical and empirical evidence, support is lent to the arguments: that the new penology thesis downplays the role of human agency at the level of implementing criminal justice policies; that it ignores the potential…
Race Matters in British Prisons
Preface to the special issue: Neoliberalism and penality: Reflections on the work of Loïc Wacquant
What’s neoliberalism got to do with it? Towards a political economy of punishment in Greece
SAGE copyright policy clearly states that the co-authors 'may not post the final version of the article as published by SAGE or the SAGEâ created PDF â â version 3â . Thus we cannot achieve the submitted (SAGE.pdf) version
The ambivalent consequences of visibility: Crime and prisons in the mass media
This article aims to demonstrate that, despite their potential for cultivating communitarianism and deliberative democracy on a large scale, the mass media contribute decisively to the formation of punitiveness amongst the public by means of selective semiotic aestheticisation. They overstate the problem of crime; put the blame on marginalised cohorts and level heavy criticism against the administration of prisons purportedly for laxity; issue ur…
The Sociospatial Mechanics of Domination: Transcending the ‘Exclusion/Inclusion’ Dualism
For a Freudo-Marxist critique of social domination: Rediscovering Erich Fromm through the mirror of Pierre Bourdieu
This article aims to make a case and set the foundations for retrieving Erich Fromm’s Freudo-Marxist theory of action and his approach to social domination in particular. To this end, Frommian psychoanalysis is compared with the ‘socio-analysis’ of Pierre Bourdieu. As far as method is concerned, whereas Bourdieu focuses attention on the socio-political processes of production and reproduction of the perceptive structures that individuals and grou…
Violence and Narcissism: A Frommian Perspective on Destructiveness under Authoritarianism
This article offers a sympathetic appraisal of Erich Fromm's conceptualisation of narcissism as it relates to the emergence, sustenance, and resolution of authoritarian violence. The discussion is first placed within the methodological debate over the analytic operations that are required for an adequate understanding of authoritarian violence, explaining why a psychoanalytic perspective is necessary. The focus then shifts to Fromm's take on the …
Neoliberal capitalism and middle-class punitiveness: Bringing Erich Fromm’s ‘materialistic psychoanalysis’ to penology
Why is it that imprisonment has undergone an explosive growth in the USA and Britain over the last three decades against the background of falling crime rates in both countries? And why has this development met with a significant and escalating degree of support among the public? To the extent that governing elites on either side of the Atlantic have been eliciting public support for their authority by inducing concerns about issues of crime and …
Crime and Economic Downturn: The Complexity of Crime and Crime Politics in Greece since 2009
Description and explanation of the relationship between economic downturn and crime have to date been limited by the narrow scope of criminal activity characteristically selected as a focus by pertinent criminological scholarship. Efforts to examine the relationship have overwhelmingly approached it through the prism of common property and violent offences, or, and to a lesser degree, white-collar crime. As a consequence, appreciation has been im…
Our Violence and Theirs: Comparing Prison Realities
Severe conditions of imprisonment have contributed to a rise in the frequency and seriousness of unrest in Greek prisons over recent decades. Drawing on fieldwork material collected in the largest and most overcrowded prison for men in Greece, this article explores how prison authorities used the prospect of temporary release as a means of incentivizing conformist behavior among prisoners. It is argued that the effectiveness of this seemingly str…
Order Through Honor: Masculinity and the Use of Temporary Release in a Greek Prison
Severe conditions of imprisonment have contributed to a rise in the frequency and seriousness of unrest in Greek prisons over recent decades. Drawing on fieldwork material collected in the largest and most overcrowded prison for men in Greece, this article explores how prison authorities used the prospect of temporary release as a means of incentivizing conformist behavior among prisoners. It is argued that the effectiveness of this seemingly str…
Punishment and political systems: State punitiveness in post-dictatorial Greece
Extant research on the relationship between political systems and state punitiveness has so far paid little attention to the impact that transition from one political system to another may have upon levels and patterns of state punitiveness. This risks not only exaggerating the degree to which given trends in state punitiveness are distinct to particular political systems but also overlooking the legacy that punitive policies, practices or experi…
Introduction: Democratisation and punishment
Gobernar a través del espejo Neoliberalismo, gerencialismo y psicopolítica del control de la desviación
El objetivo de este articulo es realizar una contribucion epistemologica y sustantiva al estudio de la punitividad. En terminos epistemologicos, se reclama el recurso al psicoanalisis, en especial a la orientacion materialista de Erich Fromm. En terminos sustantivos, mediante la puesta en relacion de la teoria psicoanalitica de Fromm con las perspectivas de Economia politica del castigo contemporaneo, el objetivo es indagar los modos en los que l…
Whither neoliberal penality? The past, present and future of imprisonment in the US
Debates about the trajectory of prison rates in the US, on one hand, and about the prospects of the neoliberal international order, on the other hand, suggest the time is ripe for a reappraisal of penological scholarship on the relationship between neoliberalism and imprisonment. With the aim of responding to this challenge, this article considers the relevance of the so-called ‘neoliberal penality thesis’ as a framework through which to interpre…
Neither dupes, nor pipers: Violent crime, public sentiment and the political origins of mass incarceration in the United States
One of the most contentious questions in contemporary penology is why the use of imprisonment started rising rapidly in the United States in the early 1970s. The two dominant perspectives on the subject focus on crime's public salience and how it relates to violent crime and political elites, respectively. The first perspective holds that incumbent political elites promoted tougher criminal justice policies in the name of a public concern about v…
Crimmigrant Nations: Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders
What’s Left? Political orientation, economic conditions and incarceration in Greece under Syriza-led government
An important body of scholarly work has been produced over recent decades to explain variation in levels and patterns of state punishment across and within different countries around the world. Two variables that have curiously evaded systematic attention in this regard are, first, the orientation of incumbent governments along the political spectrum, and second, the experience and fiscal implications of national economic downturn. Although recen…
Uneasy partnerships: Prisoner re-entry, family problems and state coercion in the era of neoliberalism
Hundreds of thousands of Americans are released from prison every year. Drawing on interviews conducted in the mid-2010s in the context of the Multi-site Family Study on Parenting, Partnering and Incarceration, this article explores how the strains of prisoner re-entry interact with those of poverty and family life, and how these combined strains condition proactive engagement with the legal system among re-entering individuals and their intimate…
Depression and repression: Global capitalism, economic crisis and penal politics in interwar Greece
Notwithstanding the significant advances made over the last twenty years in terms of charting and explaining the ways in which state punishment is influenced by economic and political forces, little is still known about the penal effects of conditions of economic crisis and about the role the incumbent government's political orientation plays in this regard. Because the few available studies on these questions have been preoccupied with the Anglo…
Expendable Lives: Race and Segmented Representation in the Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States
One of the most enduring debates in the study of the evolution of criminal justice policy in the United States concerns the role of public opinion. Two viewpoints have thus far dominated pertinent scholarship, with one claiming that criminal justice policy has been genuinely responsive to changes in public opinion, and the other suggesting that incumbent administrations have simulated responsiveness to public attitudes toward criminal justice whi…
Centering race in procedural justice theory: Structural racism and the under- and overpolicing of Black communities
OBJECTIVE: We assessed the factors that legitimized the police in the United States at an important moment of history, just after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. We also evaluated one way of incorporating perceptions of systemic racism into procedural justice theory. HYPOTHESES: We tested two primary hypotheses. The first hypothesis was that perceptions of police procedural justice, distributive justice, and bounded authority were imp…
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