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Dr Georgios Papanicolaou

Associate Professor

Department: Northumbria Law School

Dr. Georgios Papanicolaou is Associate Professor at Northumbria Law School, UK. He has studied law and penal sciences at the University of Athens, Greece, and criminology and criminal justice at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. 

Georgios Papanicolaou

Georgios's research has developed around the following themes:

  • the political economy of policing and security; the historical development, organisation and functions of the police in national and transnational context
  • the political economy of organised crime, studied in the context of various illegal markets, and particularly in the context of irregular migration, human smuggling and trafficking
  • policing, democracy and strategies for innovation and reform.

Jack Snell Police Governance in a ‘Northern’ Police Force Area: An Investigation into Police and Crime Commissioners and the Political and Organisational Dynamics of the Governance of the Police. Start Date: 01/10/2022

Georgios is

  • elected member of the Board of the Greek Society for the Study of Crime and Social Control and member of the editorial collective of the Society's journal Antigone
  • member of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control and of the British Society of Criminology

  • Criminology PhD December 04 2008
  • Criminology MSc December 06 2000
  • Criminology LLM December 22 1999
  • Law LLB December 20 1996
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2016


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