Greece

Although Greece has received relatively little attention in the policing literature for many years, a small but steady flow of information has now begun to reach English-speaking audiences (Rigakos and Papanicolaou 2003; Lambropoulou 2004). 2 The limited but increasing availability of Englishlanguage accounts of Greek policing also reflects the developing state of Greek police scholarship. Although Greek policing been discussed in some legal texts, sociologically informed studies of the police have appeared only recently (Lambropoulou 1994; Dimopoulos 2000; Panousis and Vidali 2001; Stergioulis 2001; Papakonstantis 2003). As a result, there is still a noticeable deficit in the general knowledge of the field.