Dr Leonidas K Cheliotis, Lecturer in Criminology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice, gave a joint public lecture with Dr Sappho Xenakis, of the Centre for Sociological Research on Law and Criminal Justice Institutions (CESDIP) in Paris, on 1 May at the Department of History, University of California, San Diego. The lecture was entitled 'Punitiveness after Dictatorship: The Case of Greece since 1974'.