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Dr Avi Boukli

Profile summary

  • Central Academic Staff
  • Senior Lecturer in Criminology
  • Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
  • Social Policy & Criminology
  • avi.boukli

Professional biography

Before joining The Open University in February 2016, Avi worked at Teesside University as Senior Lecturer in Criminology and qualified as an Inside-Out instructor to teach higher education programmes within the prison system. Prior to this Avi taught at Birkbeck and at the London School of Economics. Between 2001 and 2015, Avi was the editor in chief of Kodikas Publications in Athens, Greece. Their research is concerned with imaginary penalities, social harm, and social justice and with some broader questions to do with the interface between structural inequalities, crime, gender, sexuality, and zemia.

Qualifications

Oct.'18 - Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, H.E.A., U.K.

Oct.'07 - Apr.'12 - PhD in Law, “Imaginary Penalities: reconsidering anti-trafficking discourses and technologies”. The London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Law, London, UK.

Oct.'06 - Oct.'07 - Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Criminology, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Dpartment of Sociology, London, UK.

Sep.'00 - Feb.'05 - Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Sociology, specialisation in Criminology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Sociology, Athens, Greece.

Professional affiliations

British Society of Criminology; Onassis Scholars' Association; Greek Society for the Study of Deviance and Social Control; European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control; American Society of Criminology (2011); Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

 

Research interests

In previous years, Avi's work engaged with sexuality, gender, criminalisation, security, human rights, and social harm, informed by empirical work in the context of human trafficking and "modern slavery". 

Currently, Avi is working on gender and cultural harm in the context of anti-trans harms, and the criminalisation of protection in the context of "modern slavery".

PhD supervision

Avi is interested in supervising students in the following areas: social justice, feminist theory, queer theory, state crime, social harm, marxist criminology, critical victimology, media representations of crime, human trafficking, zemiology, and the regulation of non-binary identities.

Current PhD students:

  • Evgenia Iliadou
  • Roe McDermott

Selected publications

A record of Avi's research publications can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.

Boukli, A. (2019) Zemiology and Human Trafficking. London & NY: Routledge.

Boukli, A., Yanacopulos, H. & Papanicolaou, G. (2019) 'Geneologies of Slavery'. In Winterdyk, J. and Jones, J. (eds.) The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking. London & NY: Palgrave.

Boukli, A. & Kotzé, J. (2018) Zemiology: reconnecting crime and social harm. London & NY: Palgrave Macmillan, Critical Criminological Perspectives.

Boukli, A. & Renz, F. (2018) Gender Murder: transphobia, zemia, and telemorphosis. In Boukli, A. and Kotzé, J. (eds.) Zemiology: reconnecting crime and social harm. London & NY: Palgrave Macmillan, Critical Criminological Perspectives.

Boukli, P. (2016) ‘Trafficking and the “Victim Industry” Complex’. In Antonopoulos, G. (ed.) Dick Hobbs. Springer Studies in Organised Crime. New York: Springer, pp.237-263.

Boukli, P. & Chatzopoulos, G. (2015) 'Imaginary Counter-Trafficking Penalities: a comparative analysis of Greece and the United Kingdom', Journal of Trafficking, Organised Crime and Security, 1(2), pp.76-90.

Papanicolaou, G. & Boukli, P. (2011) Sex, Trafficking and Crime Policy in Greece, in Cheliotis, L. and Xenakis, S. (eds.), ‘Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives’, Oxford: Peter Lang Publishing Group, pp. 307-338.

Newspaper and media

Boukli, A. (5 July 2017) 'Criminalisation and LGBTQI+ Rights: a Queer Marxist approach', OpenLearn Article.

Bouklis, P.S. & Kappas, P. (March 2004) The Marc Dutroux of the newspaper next door (Ο Ντιτρου της Διπλανης Εφημεριδας), 87/8607, 08/03/2004, in Eleutherotypia (Greek daily newspaper).

Translations

Bouklis, P.S. ‘Human Rights and Gender Identity’, in M Galanou ed., Athens: Greek Transgender Association and the Council of Europe, 2010.

Academic Blogs

May'17 - Defining Zemia, 8 May 2017.

Jul. '16 - The Empire is Out with a Million Bullets Fired: a short introduction to the poetic rhetoric of harm, 21 July 2016. 

Feb. '16 - Moral Economy and the Refugee Crisis, with F. Renz, 1 February 2016.

Oct.'13 - Precarious Faces, Ruins: Chronicle of an HIV witch-hunt, 26 October 2013.

Oct.'13 - Transphobia, Critical Legal Thinking, 22 August 2013, also translated in Greek.

Sep.'09 - Homophobic Violence, 19 September 2009.

Teaching interests

Avi has introduced and taught several modules across a range of topics including Property Law, Criminal Law, Sociology, Criminology, Victimology and Criminal Justice.

Avi is currently the module chair/lead of DD804 Crime and Global Justice and the Qualification Lead of F75 MA in Crime and Justice. 

Publications

Deconstructing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender victim of sex trafficking: Harm, exceptionality and religion–sexuality tensions (2019-01-31)
Boukli, Avi and Renz, Flora
International Review of Victimology, 25(1) (pp. 71-90)
Cultural Harm: ‘trans fraud’, ‘gender deception’ and zero-sum games (2019)
Boukli, Avi and Copson, Lynne
Justice, Power and Resistance, 3(2) ((In Press))
Imaginary counter-trafficking penalties: A comparative analysis of Greece and the United Kingdom (2015-12-01)
Bouklis, P. S. and Chatzopoulos, Georgios
Journal of Trafficking, Organized Crime and Security, 1(2) (pp. 76-90)
[Book Review] Invisible Crimes and Social Harms. By Pamela Davies, Peter Francis and Tanya Wyatt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 280pp. £65.00 hb) (2015-06-09)
Boukli, Evi and Kotzé, Justin
British Journal of Criminology ((Early Access))
Human trafficking in Greece (2019)
Boukli, Avi and Papanicolaou, Georgios
In: Winterdyk, John and Jones, Jackie eds. The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking ((In Press))
ISBN : 978-3-319-63059-5 | Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Genealogies of Slavery (2019)
Boukli, Avi; Yanacopulos, Helen and Papanicolaou, Georgios
In: Winterdyk, John and Jones, Jackie eds. The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking
ISBN : 9783319630595 | Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan (In Press)
Introduction (2018-07-15)
Boukli, Avi and Kotzé, Justin
In: Boukli, Avi and Kotzé, Justin eds. Zemiology: Reconnecting Crime and Social Harm (pp. 1-8)
ISBN : 978-3-319-76311-8 | Publisher : Palgrave
Gender Murder: anti-trans rhetoric, zemia and telemorphosis (2018)
Boukli, Avi and Renz, Flora
In: Boukli, Avi and Kotze, Justin eds. Zemiology: Reconnecting Crime and Social Harm. Critical Criminological Perspectives (pp. 145-164)
ISBN : 978-3-319-76311-8 | Publisher : Palgrave
Trafficking and the “Victim Industry” Complex (2016-05-22)
Bouklis, Paraskevi S.
In: Antonopoulos, Georgios A. ed. Illegal Entrepreneurship, Organized Crime and Social Control Essays in Honor of Professor Dick Hobbs. Studies of Organized Crime (14) (pp. 237-263)
ISBN : 978-3-319-31608-6 | Publisher : Springer
Sex, Trafficking and Crime Policy (2011)
Bouklis, Paraskevi S. and Papanicolaou, Georgios
In: Cheliotis, Leonidas K. and Xenakis, Sappho eds. Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives (pp. 307-338)
ISBN : 978-3-03911-562-4 | Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing Group | Published : Oxford
Zemiology: reconnecting crime and social harm (2018)
Boukli, Avi and Kotze, Justin
Boukli, Avi and Kotzé, Justin eds.
ISBN : 978-3-319-76312-5 | Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan | Published : London
How the last man to see Sylvia Plath alive was punished for his quiet homosexuality (2017-02-21)
Bissell, Christopher and Boukli, Avi
The Conversation, London.