AEC Fellows: Martin Killias

Martin Killias University of Zurich, Switzerland Email: Martin.Killias@rwi.uzh.ch Office: 41-44/634 5251 Fax: 41-44/634 560

Dr. Killias has been associated with major innovations in several fields of measuring crime, such as the international crime surveys, the international self-reported delinquency projects, and the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics. He was associated with major program evaluation, such as the Swiss Heroin Trials (involving some 1,200 addicts) over more than 10 years, which included small controlled experiments. In a controlled experiment concerning community service, some 120 subjects sentenced to prison were randomly chosen to serve their sentence either through community work or in prison. An experiment including nearly 250 subjects randomly assigned to community service or to home curfew (electronic monitoring) was completed in 2006, showing moderately better outcomes in terms of social integration (re-offending, work record and family life) among those assigned to electronic monitoring. Together with his team, Dr Killias prepared a systematic review comparing the effects on re-offending of custodial and "alternative" (i.e. any non-custodial) sentences in 2006. A second systematic review on the effects of drug substitution on offending among drug-addicts has just been completed.

 

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