Submissions are invited to Urban Crime- An international Journal

ISSN 2732-6187 Editor in Chief: Christina Zarafonitou Professor of , Department of , Head of the Laboratory of Urban Criminology, Panteion University

Special Issue: “Covid-19 and Urban Safety: Exploring the effects of the pandemic on fear of crime, (in)security, penal and safety policies in urban context”

Issue editors: Christina Zarafonitou & Nikos Passas

We are happy to invite you to submit a paper for the “Urban Crime- An international Journal” for a special issue titled “Covid-19 and Urban Safety: Exploring the effects of the pandemic on fear of crime, (in)security, penal and safety policies in urban context”

Indicative topics of interest for this issue include:

• Dimensions to fear of crime/insecurity during the pandemic • Risks of victimization during the pandemic • Commerce in Illicit and falsified medicinal product • Fraud, corruption and financial crime in emergency conditions • Cybersecurity • The impact of the pandemic in Urban life and crime • Mass-Media • Misinformation and disinformation • Policing and Surveillance during the CoViD-19 pandemic • Inner-city distribution of (un)safety • Priorities of penal policies during the pandemic • New forms of policing adapted to the pandemic conditions • Objective punitivity during the pandemic period • Prevention policies • Public attitudes

Urban Crime- An international Journal: Published by the Laboratory of Urban Criminology of Panteion University of . https://easte.panteion.gr

Aims & Scope

• Urban Crime – An International Journal is a new scientific open access journal published by the Laboratory of Urban Criminology of Panteion University (Athens- Greece). • For information regarding Aims & Scope visit https://ojs.panteion.gr/?journal=uc&page=about Submissions and inquiries

Christina Zarafonitou, Editor in Chief, [email protected]

Elli Anitsi, Managing Editor, [email protected]

➢ Important Submission Guidelines: June 2021 ➢ The special issue will be published by the end of 2021. ➢ Code of ethics & Processes: https://ojs.panteion.gr/index.php/uc/about

Authors’ guidelines: https://ojs.panteion.gr/?journal=uc&page=about&op=submissions

Urban Crime- An international Journal: Published by the Laboratory of Urban Criminology of Panteion University of Athens. https://easte.panteion.gr

Editor-in Chief

Christina Zarafonitou, Professor of Criminology, Department of Sociology, Head of the Laboratory of Urban Criminology, Panteion University Greece

Editorial Board

Antonopoulos, Georgios, Professor of Criminology, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law, Teesside University, UK Balloni, Augusto, Former Full Professor of Criminology, Bologna University, President of the Italian Society of Victimology, Italy Bisi, Roberta, Professor in Criminology and Sociology of Law, of Deviance and Social Change, Department of Sociology and Business Law, , Italy Courakis, Nestor, Emeritus Professor, University of Athens, Greece; Professor, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Deuchar, Ross, Professor, Division of Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland Dieu, François, Professeur à l’Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, France Farsedakis, James, Emeritus Professor, Panteion University, Greece Hall, Alexandra, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Northumbria University, UK Hunter, James, Principal Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, UK Karagiannidis, Charalampos, Post-Doc Researcher in Criminology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Killias, Martin, Professeur Émérite des Universités de Lausanne, Zurich et St-Galle, Suisse Kontopoulou, Eleni, Post-Doc Researcher in Criminology, Panteion University, Greece Kury, Helmut, Emeritus Professor, Institute of , University of Freiburg, Germany Lemaître, André, Professeur à l’Université de Liège, Belgique L'Hoiry, Xavier, Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy, Sheffield University, UK McLean, Robert, Dr., Division of Social Sciences, University of the West of Scotland Meško, Gorazd, Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia Mimis, Angelos, Associate Professor, Panteion University, Greece Newton, Andy, Associate Professor in Criminology and Policing, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, UK Panousis, Yannis, Emeritus Professor, University of Athens, Greece Parmentier, Stephan, Professor, Head, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven, Belgium Passas, Nikos, Professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University Sette, Raffaella, Professor and Director of the Master in "Criminological Sciences for Investigation and Security", Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna, Italy Ttofi Maria, University Lecturer in Psychological Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK Tsouramanis, Christos, Emeritus Professor, , Greece Vandeviver, Christophe, Research Professor in Criminology at Ghent University, Belgium Wattis, Louise, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Teesside University, UK Winterdyk, John, Professor of Criminology, Mount Royal University, Canada

Managing Editor Elli Anitsi, PhD Candidate, Panteion University, Greece

Urban Crime- An international Journal: Published by the Laboratory of Urban Criminology of Panteion University of Athens. https://easte.panteion.gr