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...

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What's left? Political orientation, economic conditions, and incarceration in Greece under Syriza-led government

The core alternative measures in Greece have traditionally been implemented without supervision in the community. Since the early 1990s, however, new community measures have been introduced, follow...

Consent and cooperation in the Greek context: Rhetoric and praxis:

During the last two decades, the overrepresentation of foreign nationals in the Greek criminal justice system constitutes a critical issue. By exploring the available statistical data and relevant surveys, this article attempts to examine how, on the one hand, groups of non-Greek nationals fare at different stages of criminal justice within the broader social and political context and whether, on the other hand, the prejudice and stereotyping against the foreign population affects directly or indirectly the attitudes of stakeholders of social control and how this escalates, in extreme cases, into hostility, racism, and xenophobic violence against them during the years of crisis.

Foreign Nationals as a Minority Group in the Criminal Justice System of Greece: From Offending to Victimization of non-Greek Population

Highly diverse irregular migratory waves on the Western Balkan route marked an unprecedented phenomenon during the period of 2011–2015. These flows exposed them to harsh violation of human rights. In some cases, irregular migrants were treated as commodities and overlapping migrant smuggling with human trafficking. Smuggling and trafficking networks widely developed and caused negative consequences on migrants’ agency. Various severe conflicts and violent incidents were recorded at and around the borders of the Western Balkans. The article explores the potential risk factors of the irregular migration flows on the Western Balkan route. It focuses on migrant smuggling and human trafficking, analyzing their consequences on violence and crime to the European Union countries. The methodological approach of the study is based on qualitative research employing both secondary data and empirical evidence.

Risk Factors of the Irregular Migratory Waves on the Western Balkan Route: Implications in the European Union Countries

This paper describes various characteristics of illegal migrants in Greece, i.e. country of original marital status, age, sex, education and occupation, as they are reported in their application forms for residence and work permit. It also examines the factors that may affect the migrants choice of location within Greece, and the effect that their illegal status may have upon this decision. The regression analysis suggests substantial differences between men and women in same respects but common behavior in terms of risk aversion.

Illegal Migrants to Greece and their Choice of Destination

Prisoners’ rehabilitation is not explicitly included in the basic principles of Greek Penitentiary Code; though, it is adopted in several articles of this Code, as well as in other relevant national legislation and international binding legal instruments. In a country where the number of the irregular migrants 1 is estimated circa half a million persons and the proportion of aliens in prisons has climbed above 50% of the total number of prison population during the last years, the challenged issue of the rehabilitation effort especially for irregular migrants, during the execution of criminal sanctions and after their release from prisons, becomes a statistically crucial reality that must be managed effectively. We cannot talk about prisoners’ rehabilitation, if we are going to ignore and exclude the most numerous group of them out of the whole effort and procedure. Under this perspective, developing the rehabilitation idea and organizing better its elaboration becomes even more difficult but also more imperative for the penitentiary policy of the country.

Athanasia Antonopoulou

Papers

Irregular Migrants under Criminal Sanctions: Rehabilitation and After-Care Perspectives in Greece

Foreign Nationals as a Minority Group in the Criminal Justice System of Greece: From Offending to Victimization of non-Greek Population