Prof Georgios Antonopoulos

Professor

Department: Social Sciences

Prof. Georgios A. Antonopoulos is a criminologist working on organised crime and illegal markets. He has taught at the University of Durham and at Teesside University, and has delivered guest lectures at several European universities including Utrecht University, the University of Trento, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, and the University of Zagreb. Previously he was visiting fellow at Sheffield University and at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. A former local government officer, he has worked in partnerships providing strategic direction to community safety partners with the aim of coordinating criminal policy. He has led and managed projects funded by the European Commission, the Economic and Social Research Council, and the British Ministry of Justice.

Prof. Antonopoulos is member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, board member of the Cross-Border Crime Colloquium, series editor of the Routledge Studies in Organised Crime, and editor-in-chief of the journal Trends in Organised Crime. From 2010 to 2014 he was Chair of the North-East branch of the British Society of Criminology, and in 2014-2015 he served as executive director of the International Association for the Study of Organised Crime (IASOC). He has acted as expert or consultant to: the strategic analysis sector (e.g. Enterprise & Diplomatie Groupe ADIT, France; Sandstone SA, Luxemburg; Intellegit, Italy; Oxford Analytica, UK), RAND, the Centre for the Study of Democracy (Bulgaria), Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the British Police, the UK Cabinet Office, the UK Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, the US Department of Commerce, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Since 2019 he has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has commented extensively on illegal markets and organised crime in media outlets including BBC World, The Guardian, The Observer, Deutsche Welle, NBC News, Al Jazeera, France24, Le Figaro, VICE, and The Economist.

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Key Publications

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Correction: Identifying sex trafficking in Adult Services Websites: an exploratory study with a British police force (Trends in Organized Crime, (2021), 10.1007/s12117-021-09414-1), L’Hoiry, X., Moretti, A., Antonopoulos, G. 2 Apr 2024, In: Trends in Organized Crime
Football Fan Tokens as a mode of “serious leisure”: unveiling the dual essence of identity and investment, Manoli, A., Dixon, K., Antonopoulos, G. 11 Jan 2024, In: Leisure Studies
Human trafficking, sexual exploitation and digital technologies, L’Hoiry, X., Moretti, A., Antonopoulos, G. 1 Feb 2024, In: Trends in Organized Crime
Olympians’ perspectives of environmental sustainability within the Olympic games, Manoli, A., Lomax, C., O’Byrne, D., Antonopoulos, G. 10 Feb 2024, In: Leisure Studies
Con Air: Exploring the Trade in Counterfeit and Unapproved Aircraft Parts, Kotzé, J., Antonopoulos, G. 1 Sep 2023, In: The British Journal of Criminology
COVID-19 and Organized Crime: An Introduction to the Special Issue, Kotzé, J., Lloyd, A., Antonopoulos, G. 1 Jun 2023, In: Trends in Organized Crime
‘Critical Perspectives on Human Smuggling and the Border’. Special issue of Trends in Organised Crime, 26(1), Sanchez, G., Antonopoulos, G. 2023
"Fake it to Make it": Exploring Product Counterfeiting in Türkiye, Bural, D., Lloyd, A., Antonopoulos, G., Kotzé, J. 27 Nov 2023, In: Journal of Financial Crime
Getting big but not hard: A retrospective case-study of a male powerlifter's experience of steroid-induced erectile dysfunction, Kotzé, J., Richardson, A., Antonopoulos, G. 1 Nov 2023, In: International Journal of Drug Policy
Illicit pharmaceutical supply: moving beyond common assumptions about drugs and drug dealing, Hall, A., Antonopoulos, G. 31 Jul 2023, Understanding Drug Dealing and Illicit Drug Markets, London, Taylor & Francis

Professional Activity

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Membership of board: European Society of Criminology Working Group on Organised Crime & Criminal Networks (External organisation) 2022
Invited talk: Human Traffickers and the Economy in Greece 2022

Further Information

External Roles and Professional Activities

Member of the editorial board:
- Global Crime;
- Crime Prevention and Community Safety;
- Journal of Financial Crime;
- Journal of Money Laundering Control;
- International Journal of Cyber-Criminology;
- International Criminology;
- British Journal of Criminology
Senior external member, eCrime, University of Trento, Italy (2011- )
Member, Academic Board of the International PhD in Criminology, Catholic University of Milan, Italy (2014- )
Member, UK Research & Innovation Future Leaders Fellowships (UKRI FLF) Peer Review College (2018- )
Member of the management board, ESRC Northern Ireland & North East Doctoral Training Partnership (NINE DTP) (2018-2022)
Member, UN Delta 8.7 (modern slavery) Policy Guides Working Group (2020- )
Member, Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP) Policy Fellowship Programme, University of Cambridge (2021- )
Member, World Economic Forum Expert Network (SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions & Illicit Economy), Geneva (2021- )

Qualifications

Criminology PhD June 30 2006
Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2008

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