Angelika Pitsela graduated from the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece with support from the State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.) during the course of her studies. She obtained her Ph.D. at the Law School of the Albert- Ludwigs University of Freiburg (Germany). She has worked for the Criminological Research Group of the Max-Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg (under scholarship of the Max Planck Society) and for the Criminological Institute of the University of Cologne. Dr. Pitsela serves as an Associate Professor of Criminology - Penology at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and teaches under- and postgraduate level Criminology, Juvenile Law, Penology and Economic Penal Law. Additionally, she gives courses in German on Juvenile Criminal Law, Criminology, and Penology to students of European Universities under the auspices of LLP/ERASMUS Program as well as to students of the faculties/schools of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her teaching appointments in the areas of Juvenile Law, Criminology and Penology are: UNESCO Chair on Education for Human Rights, Democracy and Peace of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki National School of Judges and Prosecutors in Thessaloniki The Police Academy in Veria (previously in Thermi - Thessaloniki) Programs and seminars of postgraduate training/lifelong Learning Program under the title Combating of the Drug Dependency in the Framework of the Penal Correction of the Therapy Centre for Dependent Individuals (KETHEA) in collaboration with the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Department of Psychiatry of the University of San Diego, California Centre for the Integration of Ex-Prisoners (EPANODOS) Central Scientific Council for the Prevention and Combating of Victimization and Criminality of Minors in cooperation with the National Centre for Social Solidarity (EKKA) for the training of social workers of the Child Protection Teams of the municipalities of the country. She has frequently served as a representative of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology in the General Assembly of the Law Faculty, and as a representative of the Law Faculty in the Committee of Social Policy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2004-2013). She was the Director of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology during the academic year 2013-2014. Under the LLP/ERASMUS Program Dr. Pitsela researches on curricular integrity for transfer students at the following universities: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) University of West Bohemia, Pilsen (Czech Republic) The Nottingham Trent University (United Kingdom) Loughborough University (United Kingdom) University of Lapland, Rovaniemi (Finland) Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (Germany)
2 Universität zu Köln (Germany) Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany) University of Szeged (Hungary) Miscolc University (Hungary) Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy) Università degli studi di Palermo (Italy) Università degli studi di Teramo (Italy) Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy) Universitatea din Oradea (Romania) University of Bialystok (Poland) Jagiellonian University of Krakow (Poland) University im. Adama Mickiewicya of Poznan (Poland) Unversidad de Lusiada, Lissabon (Portugal) University of Ljubljana (Slowenia) Gazi University of Ankara (Turkey) Istanbul Kültür University (Turkey). As a member of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology Dr. Pitsela has been a co-author or research partner in the following European, bilateral and national research studies: LEONARDO DA VINCI Pilot Program Orestis Research of Needs and Vocational Training Methods for Juvenile Offenders and Juveniles at Risk (1997-2000) EMPLOYMENT INTEGRA Support Structure and Actions of Employment and Training for Juvenile Offenders and Juveniles at Risk (1997-1999) ANEP The Social Problem of Criminality of Foreigners. A Criminological and Victimological Approach (1998-2003) External Evaluation of the Supporting Centre for Inmates and Ex-Inmates Drug Users (2000-2001) YOUTH Program Support Measures: Information and Co-operation Activities for the Development of Initiatives of Juvenile Offenders (20012003) DAPHNE Project: Multidisciplinary Model for the Prevention and Fight against Violence and Abuse of Juvenile Delinquents (2001-2003) Greek-German bilateral Research Programme (IKYDA Project): Juvenile Delinquency and Criminal Justice Systems in a European Perspective (20022004) funded by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) AGIS Program: Comparative Analysis of Women's Prison: Prison Current Situation, Demand Analysis and Best Practice (2003-2005) SOCRATES GRUNDTVIG 4: Education in Prison (2004-2005) EU SOCIAL EXCLUSION Project on Foreign Prisoners in European Penitentiary Institutions (2005-2006) GRUNDTVIG 1: European Cooperation Projects for Adult Education and Lifelong Learning ( EURO-DESIP: Diagnostic Project on Higher Education in Prison Institutions in Europe» (2005-2007)
3 AGIS Program: Juvenile Justice Systems in Europe - Current Situation, Reform Developments and Good Practices (2006-2008) Program DIODOS for the communication of Law Students with Young Detainees of Diavata Prison (2004-2007) Program CONTACT between Law Students and Young Prisoners targeting discrimination and promoting social inclusion funded by the General Secretariat for Youth, Institute for Youth (2008-2009) Empirical research program: Prisoners' Rights in Greek Prisons in Honour of the Emeritus Professor Stergios Alexiadis (2005-2009) Greek-German bilateral Research Programme on criminality of girls and women (2009-2012), with the support of the Foundation of RheinEnergie Jugend, Beruf, Wissenschaft (http://www.kriminologie.unikoeln.de/projektfrauenkrim.html) Specific Program Criminal Justice of the European Commission, Directorate General Justice - Directorate B: Criminal Justice: The 3E Model for a Restorative Justice Strategy in Europe - The geographic distribution of Restorative Justice in 11 European Countries and the configuration of an Effective - Economic - European Strategy Model for its further diffusion (the 3E-RJ MODEL) (2011-2013). Memberships and appointments: Bar Association of Athens Editorial board of the Hellenic Section of the International Society of Social Defence Hellenic Society of Criminology Hellenic Society for the Study of Crime and Social Control Association of European Jurists Hellenic Society for the Protection of Ex-Prisoners Scientific Committee of the Centre for the Integration of Ex-Prisoners (EPANODOS) Alternate member, Central Scientific Prison Council at the Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights International advisory board of the Internet Journal of Restorative Justice, a peer review journal Co-leader of the Series Social care in the field of criminal justice Research partner in the monthly published journal Criminal Justice Member of the Research committee of the journal Youths, Crime and Society of the Laboratory of the Sociology of Youth, Leisure and Sports in the University of the Aegean Juvenile justice system reform committee (2001-2003, 2009-2010) New prison law committee (2010-2011) President of the Central Scientific Council for the Prevention and Combating of Victimization and Criminality of Minors, a consultative body to the Minister of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights (2010-2013) President, National Coordinating Group for the Protection of Minors (2012-2013)
4 Coordinator in the Judgement and in the Review Committee of Diplomas/Degrees regarding the field of Criminal Law and Criminology for the Cyprus Council for the Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications (KY.S.A.T.S.) Member of the Legislative Committee for the preparation of a draft law for the establishment of Youth Care Units (2015) Chairman of the Working Group for the recording, classification, evaluation and rationalization of the constraints and general institutional obstacles in the professional reintegration of ex-prisoners and generally criminally persecuted persons (2015). Dr. Pitsela s research interests are focused on the field of juvenile justice, penitentiary law and policy, economic crime, and social welfare as related to criminal justice and research on criminality and victimization of vulnerable groups, i.e. juveniles, women, the elderly, and immigrants. She has published books, studies and articles (either alone or in cooperation with others) concerning victimization of migrants, juvenile delinquency, assessment of seriousness of crime, female delinquency and imprisonment, domestic violence, economic crime, European and international prison rules and policy, and juvenile justice comparative law. Her numerous publications include the following books: Straffälligkeit und Viktimisierung ausländischer Minderheiten in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Kriminologische Forschungsberichte. Vol. 15. Freiburg: Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht 1986. Jur. Diss. Juvenile Law. Lecture Notes. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: Publications Service 1994 (Greek) International and Foreign Crime Policy Instruments, Vol. II, Juvenile Law, 4th Ed., Athens, Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas 2006 (Greek) Social Care in the Field of Criminal Justice, 2nd Ed., Athens, Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas 2006 (Greek) International Prison Policy Instruments, Athens, Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas 2003 (Greek) The Criminological Approach of the Economic Crime, Athens-Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas 2010 (Greek) The Penal Response to Juvenile Crime, 7th Ed., Athens, Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas 2013 (Greek). She has edited the following materials: Criminology: Searching for Answers. Essays in Honour of Professor Stergios Alexiadis. Athens, Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas 2010 (in Greek, English, German and French)
The Route towards Justice. Proceedings of the Conference in Honour of Emeritus Professor Stergios Alexiadis. Athens, Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas 2012 (in Greek) Proceedings of the Congress in 9-10 March 2012, on the topic The Combating of the Victimization and Criminality of Minors (e-book, Athens: Nomiki Bibliothiki 2013) In the terms of the project The 3E Model for a Restorative Justice Strategy in Europe, she has co-edited with Professor E. Symeonidou-Kastanidou the Restorative Justice in Criminal Matters: Towards a new European Perspective. Proceedings of the Congress in 16-17 May. Athens, Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas 2013 (in Greek and English) as well as The Restorative Justice in Criminal Matters: Towards a new European Perspective. Comparative research in 11 countries. Athens, Thessaloniki: Sakkoulas 2013 (in English). 5