Researcher

SHORT CV

Anastasia Chalkia is a sociologist and criminologist, and a researcher at the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), specialising in the Sociology of Crime. She received her PhD with distinction from the Department of Sociology at Panteion University, examining public punitiveness and attitudes towards crime policy. She also completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Panteion University, receiving a scholarship for academic excellence during her master’s programme in Criminology.

She has participated as a principal investigator, researcher and expert in Greek and European projects on crime policy, migration and social inclusion, gender-based violence, hate crime and discrimination. Her research is informed by extensive institutional experience at the Greek National Commission for Human Rights (GNCHR) and in head positions within the Greek Asylum Service. Since 2017, she has served as Deputy Representative of Greece to the European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN). She is a founding member and Head of Research and Academic Affairs at the Center for the Study of Crime (KEME). She has taught at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Hellenic Open University, the University of West Attica, Panteion University and the National School of Public Administration and Local Government.

Her research interests focus on the study of crime and deviance as socially and politically constituted phenomena, processes of criminalisation, and formal and informal social responses. Her work examines power relations and mechanisms of social control, surveillance practices and security regimes, as well as the protection of human rights. She places particular emphasis on the political production and unequal distribution of vulnerability along lines of gender, class, and national or ethnic origin, and their implications for the operation of criminal justice, drawing on quantitative and qualitative methods of social research.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Sociology of crime and deviance
• Criminalisation and social responses
• Power relations and social control
• Surveillance and security regimes
• Gender and crime
• Political production of vulnerability and social inequalities
• Intersecting inequalities and intersectionality in criminalisation, victimisation and criminal justice
• Methodology of social research

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Chalkia, A. (2027). Securitizing migration in Greece: Policy shifts and media narratives on Closed Controlled Access Centers. In G. Pleios, I. Kostarella, N. Kalfeli, & A. Tramountanis (Eds.), Media and migration in Southeastern Europe: Shaping narratives and policies (pp. 271–285). Routledge. ISBN 9781041200864
• Lempesi, M., Chalkia, A., & Chionis, D. (Eds.). (2025). Cultural criminology and neo-noir: Crime in literature and cinema in Greece. Kyfanta Publications. ISBN 9786185602444 [in Greek]
• Tsiganou, J., Chalkia, A., & Lempesi, M. (Eds.). (2024). Contemporary societies in motion: Pioneering qualitative research methods in the study of deviance & social control. Conference proceedings. National Centre for Social Research. ISBN 9789606834530
• Tsiganou, J., Chalkia, A., & Lempesi, M. (2021). COVID-19 crisis as the new-state-of-the-art in the crimmigration milieu. Social Sciences, 10(12), Article 457. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10120457
• Chalkia, A. (2021). Criminal violence and its prevention in context. Specific challenges for the integration of refugees and migrants in the twenty-first century. In H. Kury & S. Redo (Eds.), Crime prevention and justice in 2030: UN and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (pp. 447–464). Springer. ISBN 9783030562267