Crime and Criminal Justice Policy in Greece during the Financial Crisis

There has naturally been great and widespread interest in the impact of the ongoing international financial crisis on society. As with previous crises, one of the issues to have received particular attention in political, media, and public discourse has been the effect of rising socioeconomic hardship on common crime, with the former typically presumed to have substantially increased the prevalence and severity of the latter. Empirical reality, however, has problematized this presumption. On the one hand, the long-term trend of falling rates of police-recorded crime in Britain and the United States has continued unabated since the onset of the financial