Vasileios Karydis
Deputy Ombudsman in charge of human rights.
Professor at the Department of Social and Educational Policy, University of Peloponnese. Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens. He has worked extensively in the fields of immigrant integration and crime, youth cultures and violence, hidden criminality, prison system, justice system and delivery of criminal justice. His latest book is “Visions of Social Control in Greece. Moral Panics, Criminal Justice”, Sakkoulas Publ., 2010. Member of ad hoc Law-Making Committees at the Ministry of Public Order and Ministry of Justice.
Staff member of the Academic Network “Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice Systems in Europe”, and member of the Steering Committee of the “European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control”.
