Nikos Paraskevopoulos

{{short description|Greek politician (born 1949)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Nikos Paraskevopoulos
{{small|Νίκος Παρασκευόπουλος}}

|office = Minister of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights

|primeminister = Alexis Tsipras

|term_start = 23 September 2015

|term_end = 4 November 2016

|predecessor = Dimitris Papangelopoulos

|successor = Stavros Kontonis

|office2 = Minister of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights

|primeminister2 = Alexis Tsipras

|term_start2 = 27 January

|term_end2 = 28 August 2015

|predecessor2 = {{Interlanguage link|Charalampos Athanasiou|el|3=Χαράλαμπος Αθανασίου}}

|successor2 = Dimitris Papangelopoulos

|birth_date = 1949

|birth_place = Athens, Greece

|death_date =

|death_place =

|party = Syriza

|alma_mater = National Technical University of Athens

}}

Nikos Paraskevopoulos ({{langx|el|Νίκος Παρασκευόπουλος}}) is a Greek criminologist who

is a former Greek Minister of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights. He was a professor of criminal law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki's Law School.{{cite web|title=Institutional framework|publisher=KETHEA|url=http://www.kethea.gr/en-us/whoweare/institutionalframework.aspx|accessdate=1 February 2015}}

In the September 2015 Greek legislative election, he was elected MP for the Thessaloniki A constituency with Syriza. He has also served as the Minister of Justice of Greece from 27 January to 28 August 2015.{{cite web|title=They're strong, stubborn and (mainly) SYRIZA… Who are the people who have vowed to take Greece out of the depths of despair?|work=Proto Thema|url=http://en.protothema.gr/the-who-is-who-of-the-greek-govt/|date=29 January 2015|accessdate=31 January 2015}}

Paraskevopoulos was responsible for criminal matters under former Minister of Justice George Kouvelakis (1993–95), and for prison inmates rehabilitation programs from 1988 to 1997. He is the vice president of KETHEA, the largest drug-addicts' rehabilitation and social reintegration network in Greece.

While in Syriza's 2012 shadow cabinet, Zoe Konstantopoulou had been nominated for justice,{{cite news|script-title=el:Δεκαέξι «σκιώδεις υπουργούς» έχρισε ο Τσίπρας|trans-title=Tsipras appoints 16 shadow ministers|work=Ethnos|url=http://www.ethnos.gr/article.asp?pubid=63679807|date=3 July 2012|accessdate=30 January 2015|language=el}} after the January 2015 legislative election it was decided to give the post to independent expert Paraskevopoulos.