Georgios A Antonopoulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 81972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georgios A Antonopoulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georgios A |
| FAMILY NAME | Antonopoulos |
| SIGNATURE | ANTONOPOULOS G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Teesside University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6142-9909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Marshalling the traffic: A preliminary exploration of the illegal firearms trade in Ukraine during martial law
The russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the subsequent war have increased both the circulation and use of illegal firearms. The imposition of martial law, intended to help secure territorial defences and the safety of the people, has also, unintentionally, influenced the illegal firearms trade in Ukraine. The impact of martial law in this context is not fully known, and there is a paucity of empirical research directed towards illuminating th…
Plausibly deniable - Domestic cannabis cultivation and the private rented sector in the UK
Domestic cannabis cultivation has grown exponentially for the past several decades and is said to outstrip importation from abroad in many jurisdictions, the UK included. While research has been attentive to this shift, scant attention has been paid to the space in which much domestic cannabis cultivation takes place: privately rented residential property. This article explores how and why the private rented sector in the UK facilitates and incub…
‘Hiding in plain sight’: Organised crime, financial crime and property
This special issue of Trends in Organised Crime brings together recent empirical research on organised crime, financial crime and property. The collection comprises six original contributions, which collectively reveal the multiple ways property intersects with organised and financial crime – from organised violence against property, predatory landlordism, and domestic cannabis cultivation, to mortgage and real estate fraud, and money laundering
Dealing with organised crime and the financing of terrorism: An introduction to the special issue
This is an introduction to the articles submitted to the special issue of Trends in Organised Crime on dealing with organised crime and the financing of terrorism. The aim of the special issue is to draw together a range of empirical studies from around the world outlining important considerations for dealing with the relevant phenomena, including the key challenges and solutions for policy makers and practitioners
Community perspectives of terrorism and the Nigerian government’s counterterrorism strategies: A systematic review
Terrorism and insecurity pose significant global concern and Nigeria has been bedevilled by Boko Haram – a terrorist group deemed one of the deadliest terrorist groups in the world. While the Nigerian government have adopted concerted counterterrorism approaches to tackle terrorism, very limited success seems to have been achieved and the synthesis of community perspectives of government interventions appears lacking. This study makes an original…
Football Fan Tokens as a mode of “serious leisure”: Unveiling the dual essence of identity and investment
With the field of cryptocurrency in sports being primarily discussed from the material and financial standpoint of industry producers, in our study, we conduct a qualitative exploration into the consumption of Fan Tokens within the realm of football fandom in order to elucidate the experiences and motivations of football fans in their consumption of Fan Tokens.Data collected through 10 focus groups with 60 fan token consumers were used for this s…
Olympians’ perspectives of environmental sustainability within the Olympic games
The Olympic Games (OG) are renowned for their prestige and socioeconomic benefits; however, they have suffered criticism for their environmental practices. Unlike existing studies on the matter, which adopt top-down approaches, the purpose of this exploratory study is to conduct bottom-up research to understand Olympians' perspectives of environmental sustainability within the OG. Data collected through semistructured interviews with eight Olympi…
Human trafficking, sexual exploitation and digital technologies
This is the introduction to the special issue on ‘human trafficking, sexual exploitation and digital technologies’. This special issue contributes to the knowledge base by bringing together four articles that focus on the use of online platforms by human traffickers for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation. In doing so, this special issue explores the affordances of online platforms to human traffickers, the challenges faced by law enfo…
Identifying sex trafficking in Adult Services Websites: An exploratory study with a British police force
A relational approach to organised crime: Introduction to the special issue on crime and networks
This is an introduction to the articles submitted to the special issue of Trends in Organized Crime on ‘Crime and Networks’. The aim of this special issue is to advance our relational understanding of organised crime, gangs and crime more generally by presenting six works exploring a diverse set of questions related to organised crime, street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, money laundering and groups operating in cyberspace
Rethinking organized crime in Africa
Much of the existing research on organized crime in Africa has emphasised its development and proliferation from state and security perspectives. Such research often relies upon inflated facts for captivating public attention, is fuelled by sensationalist media reports and draws from conceptualisations that give an incomplete picture of the significance of illicit activities, both for the state and their role in enabling and sustaining people’s l…
Covid-19 and organized crime: An introduction to the special issue
Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling
Getting big but not hard: A retrospective case-study of a male powerlifter's experience of steroid-induced erectile dysfunction
This article aims to excavate the lived experience of suffering with steroid-induced erectile dysfunction. By drawing upon original qualitative data, we chart the subjective journey to recovery of a male powerlifter and draw attention to the potential dangers of a self-help approach to treatment. Erectile dysfunction is a common symptom of anabolic-androgenic steroid-induced hypogonadism, a condition not commonly reported or discussed and is ther…
Duty Free: Turning the Criminological Spotlight on Special Economic Zones
Spatially designated economic zones render countries vulnerable to crime and harm, while simultaneously diffusing and escalating these problems across the globe. Yet, criminological analysis of special economic zones (SEZs) and similar areas remains limited. This article analyses the kinds of criminality and harm attached to such fiscal and commodity enclaves. Our analysis begins with the history of SEZs. We then offer a typology of related harms…
Con Air: Exploring the trade in counterfeit and unapproved aircraft parts
Counterfeit aircraft parts are among the most well-known counterfeits and pose a significant risk to public safety. It is estimated that as much as 10% of the legal market for aircraft parts are counterfeits and the presence of these parts on commercial aircraft are more commonplace than many people realise. Yet, criminological research on this pressing issue is remarkably scarce. Informed by accounts from specialised and highly knowledgeable act…
Criminal markets and networks in Cyberspace
This is an introduction to the special issue of Trends in Organized Crime on ‘criminal markets and networks in cyberspace’. All the contributions to this special issue, even if from different standpoints and focuses, help us understand how cyberspace is (re)shaping offenses and offenders
The processes, logics and economies of violence in organised crime
Policing Sex Trafficking in the ‘Virtual Red-Light District’: A Research Note
Working alongside a police force in the United Kingdom, the study briefly presented in this note, sought to create an analytical tool (the Sexual Trafficking Identification Matrix—STIM) with which policing actors could distinguish between Adult Services Website (ASW) profiles posted by independent sex workers and profiles created by traffickers. Distinguishing between these will potentially allow law enforcement agencies to prioritise their inves…
‘Through a glass darkly’: Organised crime and money laundering policy reflections - an introduction to the special issue
‘Illegal labour practices, trafficking and exploitation’: An introduction to the special issue
Technology in Human Smuggling and Trafficking: Case Studies from Italy and the United Kingdom
How Eritreans plan, fund and manage irregular migration, and the extent of involvement of ‘organised crime’
You sick, twisted messes’: The use of argument and reasoning in Islamophobic and anti-Semitic discussions on Facebook
This research used critical discursive psychology to analyse anti-Semitic and Islamophobic discourse on the English Defence League’s (EDL) Facebook page. The discussion by Facebook users began about ‘reopening’ concentration camps, in which to incarcerate Muslims. Facebook users also expressed anti-Semitic discourse such as Holocaust denial, and the idea that Jews ‘could have done more’. The analysis focuses on the reasoning used when expressing …
Human Trafficking Finances: Evidence from Three European Countries
Boosting bodily capital: Maintaining masculinity, aesthetic pleasure and instrumental utility through the consumption of steroids
Anabolic-androgenic steroid consumption is considered a significant public health issue in a number of countries but particularly in the northeast of England. Informed by ongoing ethnographic work on steroid use, this article aims to explore two particular dimensions of bodily capital within the overarching context of hyper-masculinity. Towards this end we focus on aesthetic pleasure as the ‘boosted’ body becomes a site of contemporary consumptio…
Techniques of Neutralizing the Trafficking of Women: A Case Study of an Active Trafficker in Greece
Police Perception of Migration and Migrants in Greece
www.brill.nl/eccl (c) Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 16 (2008) Contents Police Perception of Migration and Migrants in Greece 353 Georgios A. Antonopoulos, John Tierney and Colin Webster The Scope of the Community's Competence in the Field of Criminal Law 379 Matthias J. Borgers and Tijs Kooijmans Quo Vadis Guantanamo? - Reflections on the U.S. Supreme Court's Boumediene Decision 39…
Endemic to the species’: Ordering the ‘other’ via organised crime
The United States has been the prime mover in the establishment of both the concept of organised crime and the use of the concept in its attempt to establish global hegemony, in which law enforcement became a little more than a front for a government-backed central casting agency, stereotyping both heroes and villains. This article offers an account of how the ‘Other’ has been used as prism for the construction of organised crime primarily in the…
Football Fan Tokens as a mode of “serious leisure”: Unveiling the dual essence of identity and investment
With the field of cryptocurrency in sports being primarily discussed from the material and financial standpoint of industry producers, in our study, we conduct a qualitative exploration into the consumption of Fan Tokens within the realm of football fandom in order to elucidate the experiences and motivations of football fans in their consumption of Fan Tokens.Data collected through 10 focus groups with 60 fan token consumers were used for this s…
The ‘good’, the ‘bad’ and the ‘Charlie’: The business of cocaine smuggling in Greece
This article examines the social organisation of cocaine smuggling in Greece. Emphasis is placed on the involvement of professionals from the shipping industry and actors from the ‘upper society echelons’ who play a pivotal role in the transportation and importation of cocaine to Western Europe and Greece. After considering empirical evidence from a variety of sources, our findings indicate that the cocaine market in Greece is ‘organised’ by a sy…
Greece: Policing Racist Violence in the 'Fenceless Vineyard
Drawing on interviews with Greek detectives carried out by the author in 2002, the Greek police's attitudes towards migrant communities and racist violence are surveyed. Not only are migrant communities, particularly the Albanian, viewed as hotbeds of crime but racist violence against these communities is not viewed as a signi-ficant problem by the Greek police, who are usually indifferent to racially motivated crimes and often view racist incide…
Duty Free: Turning the Criminological Spotlight on Special Economic Zones
Spatially designated economic zones render countries vulnerable to crime and harm, while simultaneously diffusing and escalating these problems across the globe. Yet, criminological analysis of special economic zones (SEZs) and similar areas remains limited. This article analyses the kinds of criminality and harm attached to such fiscal and commodity enclaves. Our analysis begins with the history of SEZs. We then offer a typology of related harms…
You sick, twisted messes’: The use of argument and reasoning in Islamophobic and anti-Semitic discussions on Facebook
This research used critical discursive psychology to analyse anti-Semitic and Islamophobic discourse on the English Defence League’s (EDL) Facebook page. The discussion by Facebook users began about ‘reopening’ concentration camps, in which to incarcerate Muslims. Facebook users also expressed anti-Semitic discourse such as Holocaust denial, and the idea that Jews ‘could have done more’. The analysis focuses on the reasoning used when expressing …
The inevitability of corruption in Greek football
From the late 1990s, corrupt practices in Greek football have been considered to pose a serious threat to the integrity of the sport, with a number of schemes and measures being introduced as a response. The aim of this article is to show why corruption in Greek football is inevitable by offering a detailed account of three football-related corrupt practices and highlighting their contextual parameters, as well as juxtaposing them against the set…
The Dragon Breathes Smoke: Cigarette Counterfeiting in the People's Republic of China
This article aims at providing an account of the social organization of the cigarette counterfeiting business in the People's Republic of China—a business that has been feeding the cigarette black markets around the globe. Specifically, we aim to exhibit the scale and nature of cigarette counterfeiting in mainland China, describe the practices and actors in the different phases of the trade, and examine the role of corruption and violence in the …
A Soundtrack to (illegal) Entrepreneurship: Pirated CD/DVD Selling in a Greek Provincial City
This paper—by using the pirated CD/DVD market in a provincial city in Greece as a case study—will attempt to show how alien conspiracy theory has permeated the understanding of ‘organized crime’ and how the concept serves to enforce racism and, in particular, the treatment of diasporic communities. The paper will then proceed to interrogate the concept in the context of the local operation of this market in tandem with various legitimate interest…
Public Reporting of Criminal Activities to the Police in Greece: Is There a Difference when the Offender is Migrant
At the beginning of the 1990s Greece, along with other European countries such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland, was transformed from a country of emigration to a country of immigration. Since then, the phenomenon of migration in Greece constitutes the central topic of an endless debate amongst politicians, social scientists, the public and the media, which \ninfluences the perception, and most importantly the ‘positions’ and reactions of c…
Olympians’ perspectives of environmental sustainability within the Olympic games
The Olympic Games (OG) are renowned for their prestige and socioeconomic benefits; however, they have suffered criticism for their environmental practices. Unlike existing studies on the matter, which adopt top-down approaches, the purpose of this exploratory study is to conduct bottom-up research to understand Olympians' perspectives of environmental sustainability within the OG. Data collected through semistructured interviews with eight Olympi…
Cigarette Smuggling: A Case Study of a Smuggling Network in Greece
The aim of this article is to describe a cigarette smuggling network in Greece. The smuggling of cigarettes has been the focus of a number of journalistic and \nacademic accounts and official reports throughout the world, and has been intertwined \nwith other criminal activities, terrorism, health, minority ethnic groups, and finance. \nIt is estimated that smuggled cigarettes account for 6-8.5% of the total cigarette \nconsumption. According to …
Con Air: Exploring the trade in counterfeit and unapproved aircraft parts
Counterfeit aircraft parts are among the most well-known counterfeits and pose a significant risk to public safety. It is estimated that as much as 10% of the legal market for aircraft parts are counterfeits and the presence of these parts on commercial aircraft are more commonplace than many people realise. Yet, criminological research on this pressing issue is remarkably scarce. Informed by accounts from specialised and highly knowledgeable act…
Reflections on Norway’s juvenile justice model: A comparative context
Restorative Justice Or What: Restorative Justice in the Chinese Youth Justice System
This article aims to examine restorative justice (RJ) practices in China’s youth justice system, seeking to make contributions to the global effort of operationalising the notion. It begins with an outline of the Chinese youth justice system. Following a brief literature review on RJ movements in China, it moves on to introduce the current programmes in the country’s youth justice practices, including those similar to the Western notion of RJ and…
The British 1998 Crime and Disorder Act: A 'Restorative' Response to Youth Offending
Badfellas: Crime, tradition and new masculinities
The Limitations of Official Statistics in Relation to the Criminality of Migrants in Greece
Greece has become a very popular destination for people from developing countries, and especially the former Eastern bloc since the beginning of the 1990s. Although, historically, the country experienced emigration, neither it was ready for, nor accustomed to, the influx of people immigrating in recent years. The result has been the creation of a ubiquitous 'moral panic,' a phenomenon seemingly prevailing among the public, the media, and very imp…
Techniques of Neutralizing the Trafficking of Women: A Case Study of an Active Trafficker in Greece
Cigarette Smuggling: A Case Study of a Smuggling Network in Greece
The aim of this article is to describe a cigarette smuggling network in Greece. The smuggling of cigarettes has been the focus of a number of journalistic and \nacademic accounts and official reports throughout the world, and has been intertwined \nwith other criminal activities, terrorism, health, minority ethnic groups, and finance. \nIt is estimated that smuggled cigarettes account for 6-8.5% of the total cigarette \nconsumption. According to …
Public Reporting of Criminal Activities to the Police in Greece: Is There a Difference when the Offender is Migrant
At the beginning of the 1990s Greece, along with other European countries such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland, was transformed from a country of emigration to a country of immigration. Since then, the phenomenon of migration in Greece constitutes the central topic of an endless debate amongst politicians, social scientists, the public and the media, which \ninfluences the perception, and most importantly the ‘positions’ and reactions of c…
Greece: Policing Racist Violence in the 'Fenceless Vineyard
Drawing on interviews with Greek detectives carried out by the author in 2002, the Greek police's attitudes towards migrant communities and racist violence are surveyed. Not only are migrant communities, particularly the Albanian, viewed as hotbeds of crime but racist violence against these communities is not viewed as a signi-ficant problem by the Greek police, who are usually indifferent to racially motivated crimes and often view racist incide…
Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime and Public Policy by B.E. Harcourt
Chicago : University of Chicago Press ( 2006 ) 264pp . £16.00pb ISBN 0-226-31609-2 The purpose of this book is explicitly stated by its author, Bernard Harcourt, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, in the preface: ‘... to explore the symbolic dimensions of guns and gun carrying among a group of incarcerated male youths in order to better understand and assess the laws and public policies in the United States addressing youths’ possessi…
Cigarette Smugglers: A Note on Four ‘Unusual Suspects’
The smuggling of contraband cigarettes is discussed in relation to numerous financial and social issues. Cigarette smugglers are often portrayed as ruthless and dangerous individuals, and according to official and media accounts a clear link has been established between cigarette smuggling and ‘criminal and terrorist organisations’. The aim of this article is to challenge this stereotypical image of the cigarette smugglers based on the presentati…
Police Perception of Migration and Migrants in Greece
www.brill.nl/eccl (c) Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice 16 (2008) Contents Police Perception of Migration and Migrants in Greece 353 Georgios A. Antonopoulos, John Tierney and Colin Webster The Scope of the Community's Competence in the Field of Criminal Law 379 Matthias J. Borgers and Tijs Kooijmans Quo Vadis Guantanamo? - Reflections on the U.S. Supreme Court's Boumediene Decision 39…
Unequal Crime Decline: Theorising Race, Urban Inequality and Criminal Violence. By Karen F. Parker (New York: NYU, 2008, 163pp. 35.50)
In the early 1990s, the public in the United States were bombarded with accounts about the ‘super-predator’—a young, primarily black, trigger-happy individual, who would prey on law-abiding citizens and would cause a huge increase in criminality. A gloomy picture of what was supposed to happen throughout that decade was painted. However, instead of the supposed unprecedented increase, the United States experienced a prolonged and persistent fall …
After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation
Transform Drug Policy Foundation . Bristol : Transform Drug Policy Foundation ( 2009 ) 251pp. Downloadable online free of charge ISBN 978-0-9556428-1-4 There has been a recognition internationally that the prohibition of drugs has been a failure. Gradually, an inadequately thought through international prohibitionist experiment conducted by the club of ‘problem owners’ (van Duyne and Levi 2005, p.24), including moral entrepreneurs, not only erase…
The ‘good’, the ‘bad’ and the ‘Charlie’: The business of cocaine smuggling in Greece
This article examines the social organisation of cocaine smuggling in Greece. Emphasis is placed on the involvement of professionals from the shipping industry and actors from the ‘upper society echelons’ who play a pivotal role in the transportation and importation of cocaine to Western Europe and Greece. After considering empirical evidence from a variety of sources, our findings indicate that the cocaine market in Greece is ‘organised’ by a sy…
The Origin of Organised Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1981-1931. By David Critchley (Routledge, 2009, 347pp. 65.00)
What happens when scholars become impatient with the state of knowledge in their field? How does one deal with the gaps, inaccuracies, deficiencies and misrepresentations that responses to the usual calls for more research fail to address? Given the exigencies of contemporary knowledge production, one may reasonably choose to adhere to a paradigm (and one that is not too fringe, too) in the hope that any new empirical evidence from investigations…
The Dragon Breathes Smoke: Cigarette Counterfeiting in the People's Republic of China
This article aims at providing an account of the social organization of the cigarette counterfeiting business in the People's Republic of China—a business that has been feeding the cigarette black markets around the globe. Specifically, we aim to exhibit the scale and nature of cigarette counterfeiting in mainland China, describe the practices and actors in the different phases of the trade, and examine the role of corruption and violence in the …
Offenders on Offending: Learning About Crime From Criminals. Edited by Wim Bernasco (Cullompton: Willan, 2010, 322pp. 25.00)
Criminal activities are some of the most difficult areas to collect data about due to their covert nature and relative high risk. There are no obvious benefits for those concerned in advancing academia by ‘exposing their practices to the pauperised milksop gaze of an academic’ (Hobbs 1995: 2). Consequently, it becomes tempting for the researcher to limit themselves to data from official and media sources, thereby providing a skewed approach to th…
A Soundtrack to (illegal) Entrepreneurship: Pirated CD/DVD Selling in a Greek Provincial City
This paper—by using the pirated CD/DVD market in a provincial city in Greece as a case study—will attempt to show how alien conspiracy theory has permeated the understanding of ‘organized crime’ and how the concept serves to enforce racism and, in particular, the treatment of diasporic communities. The paper will then proceed to interrogate the concept in the context of the local operation of this market in tandem with various legitimate interest…
How to Research Organized Crime
Notes on a Scandal’: Why do Females Engage in Abuse of Trust Behaviours
Although an evident reality in organisations where females work with young people, there has been no specific research to date exploring why females in positions of trust engage in sexually abusive relationships with adolescents. This study investigated the subject through a qualitative analysis of ten case studies from England drawn from the employment and safeguarding environment, comparing findings with existing studies into female sexual offe…
Endemic to the species’: Ordering the ‘other’ via organised crime
The United States has been the prime mover in the establishment of both the concept of organised crime and the use of the concept in its attempt to establish global hegemony, in which law enforcement became a little more than a front for a government-backed central casting agency, stereotyping both heroes and villains. This article offers an account of how the ‘Other’ has been used as prism for the construction of organised crime primarily in the…
Restorative Justice Or What: Restorative Justice in the Chinese Youth Justice System
This article aims to examine restorative justice (RJ) practices in China’s youth justice system, seeking to make contributions to the global effort of operationalising the notion. It begins with an outline of the Chinese youth justice system. Following a brief literature review on RJ movements in China, it moves on to introduce the current programmes in the country’s youth justice practices, including those similar to the Western notion of RJ and…
Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime and Social Control
Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime and Social Control: Essays in Honor of Professor Dick Hobbs
Reflections on Norway’s juvenile justice model: A comparative context
The Financial Management of the Illicit Tobacco Trade in the United Kingdom
Over the last two decades official and media discourses have paid increasing attention to the proceeds of ‘organized crime’. However, although there is a relatively sound understanding of finance-related issues in the drug markets, not much is known about other illegal markets. Drawing on a diverse set of original empirical data, including interviews with active criminal entrepreneurs involved in the trade, this article provides an account of the…
Political science (46 works) · Law (37 works) · Sociology (37 works) · Criminology (32 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (28 works) · Law (18 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Business (15 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Organised crime (13 works)