Marcelo F Aebi
Marcelo F. Aebi, Ph.D., is Full Professor of Criminology at the School of Criminal Sciences of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is responsible for the Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics (SPACE), Head of the group of experts that produces the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics, and Executive Secretary of the European Society of Criminology. His main research topics include comparative criminology, prisons, probation, methodology, juvenile delinquency, drugs and crime, and victimization and self-reported delinquency studies. He is author or co-author of more than one hundred and fifty scientific publications in English, French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Macedonian, Turkish, and German. He has been a part-time Visiting Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, for many years.
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Possibilities to improve the offence definitions used so far in the ESB context were explored. Also, further crime types, especially those subject to EU-harmonized definition, were tested and introduced. Based on the results of recent projects of one of the editors (Jörg-Martin Jehle), the prosecution chapter of the ESB questionnaire was changed and expanded. Data collection possibilities regarding compulsory measures in the investigatory stage were tested, and a more sophisticated approach for recording sanctions and measures had been developed, as well as for prison data.
As overarching issues, ways to collect data on pretrial detention and its surrogates and on aliens stemming from EU member states compared to those from other states were sought. The study explored how far national statistics can provide such data and developed a concept for collation on European level. The offence definitions and data collection instruments introduced and revised during the course of this project were tested and most of them were – albeit modified sometimes – included in the 4th edition ESB questionnaire. Thus, the 4th edition ESB is based on a questionnaire developed during this project. The ESB is published in parallel to this book (Aebi et al, European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics-2010, 4th edition, The Hague: Boom).
La criminalité a-t-elle réellement augmenté? Pourquoi les jeunes sont-ils plus souvent impliqués dans la délinquance? Combien de femmes sont-elles victimes de violences? Quels sont les taux de récidive? Quelle est l'utilité des peines? Des peines dites « alternatives » seraient-elles plus efficaces que la prison? Toutes ces questions sont abordées à la lumière de l'état des connaissances au niveau international.
Cette nouvelle édition – entièrement remaniée par les trois auteurs – offre au lecteur une synthèse des recherches publiées ces dernières années en Suisse et à l'étranger.
Etudiants, praticiens et journalistes y trouveront un aperçu des connaissances en matière de violence, de criminalité et de prévention.