Nikolopoulos P. George

Professor Address: Department of Sociology Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, 136, Syngrou Avenue, 176 71, Athens Building: New Building Floor: 5th Office: E6 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Telephone: +30 210 920 1794, +30 210 88 26 295

Professor of Criminology at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Department of Sociology / Section of Criminology) and has also pursued a career as an Attorney at Law at the Athens Bar Association. He has studied at the Faculty of Law of the University of Athens (1982), the postgraduate seminar of Criminology at the Panteion University and he holds a PhD in Criminology from the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Catholic University of Louvain (1993).

He has been Deputy Ombudsman for Human Rights at the Greek Ombudsman’s Office and responsible for exercising the competence of the National Preventive Mechanism under the OPCAT (2016-2021), President of the Administrative Board of “Epanodos” - the Greek National Centre for the Reintegration of Ex-Offenders (2010-2016) and member of the Central Scientific Council for Prisons (2016-2019).

His interests focus mainly on the criminal policy and the protection of human rights in the European Union, the social reintegration of ex-offenders, the criminological approach of literature, the migration question, the administration of criminal justice, etc.