Vassilis Karydis

Deputy Ombudsman in charge of human rights since 2010. Acting Ombudsman since October 2015.

Professor at the Department of Social and Educational Policy, University of Peloponnese. Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens. He has worked extensively in the fields of immigrant integration and crime, youth cultures and violence, hidden criminality, prison system, justice system and delivery of criminal justice.

His latest books are “Visions of Social Control in Greece. Moral Panics, Criminal Justice”, 2010 (with E. Fytrakis) “Penal Incarceration and Rights. The Ombudsman’s Perspective”, 2011. and “Moral Panics, Power and Rights”, 2015 (with Ath. Chouliaras).

Member of ad hoc Law-Making Committees at the Ministry of Public Order and Ministry of Justice. Elected member of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT-Council of Europe).