Marcelo F Aebi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4075583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcelo F Aebi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcelo F |
| FAMILY NAME | Aebi |
| SIGNATURE | AEBI M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3449-1093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Under the shadow of the persistent offender
Contemporary criminological scholarship often portrays criminal records as a distinctly modern institution —invented in the nineteenth century and radically transformed by digitalization and post-1970s penal change. This article challenges that rupture narrative by tracing the deep history of criminal records and recidivism through Braudel's (1958) concept of the longue durée , a framework for analyzing structures that persist across centuries. F…
The Effect of Counting Rules on Cross-National Comparisons of Homicide
Cross-national crime comparisons often rely on police-recorded data. Most frequently, such comparisons focus on homicide, as it is expected to be the crime type least likely to go undetected. This study examines how different statistical counting rules and legal definitions employed across European countries affect the reliability of cross-national homicide comparisons. We analyze homicide data from 41 European countries (1998-2022) obtained from…
Understanding Crime Trends in a Hybrid Society
SpringerBriefs in Criminology present concise summaries of cutting edge research across the fields of Criminology and Criminal Justice.It publishes small but impactful volumes of between 50-125 pages, with a clearly defined focus.The series covers a broad range of Criminology research from experimental design and methods, to brief reports and regional studies, to policy-related applications.The scope of the series spans the whole field of Crimino…
Attrition in intimate partner violence cases through the criminal justice system
Intimate partner violence (IPV) poses significant social and legal challenges, with severe consequences for victims and society. Despite the criminal justice system’s crucial role, attrition – where reported cases diminish before prosecution – remains a major concern. This scoping review examines patterns and predictors influencing attrition in IPV cases, analysing 24 empirical studies. Findings reveal that 63% to 97.2% of reported cases do not r…
Questioning the economic conditions-imprisonment link
The relationship between economic conditions and imprisonment has long been debated in the political economy of punishment, with scholars, inspired by Rusche and Kirchheimer (1939), examining whether economic downturns increase incarceration rates. However, empirical findings remain inconclusive. This article reviews 47 longitudinal studies (1950s–2020s) testing this relationship, focusing on the data analysis techniques employed and their implic…
Theoretical Perspectives, Empirical Findings, and Policy Implications of Research on Femicide Before, During, and After the Covid-19 Pandemic
Risky business
Many studies have analysed the violence to which sex workers (SWs) are exposed in countries where prostitution is criminalised, but violence in sex work when it is a legal and freelance activity has seldom been studied. This study is based on non-systematic participant observation and 14 interviews conducted with cisgender and transgender freelance SWs exercising their profession in Switzerland. Findings show that all the participants had been vi…
From Apparent Unity to Diversity
This paper presents a comprehensive study of penal policies of (former) Yugoslav countries in the last 70 years. The Yugoslavian penal policy has been unique in the sense of leniency but was by no means uniform in its implementation. A comparative analysis of the development of penal policy in the observed states, supported by statistical data on crime, conviction and prison populations, revealed that differences have been profound. While dispari…
Against All Odds, Femicide Did Not Increase During the First Year of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper tests a situational hypothesis which postulates that the number of femicides should increase as an unintended consequence of the COVID-19-related lockdowns. The monthly data on femicides from 2017 to 2020 collected in six Spanish-speaking countries—Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Panama, Mexico, and Spain—and analyzed using threshold models indicate that the hypothesis must be rejected. The total number of femicides in 2020 was similar to …
Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Covid-19 Crisis Lockdown
European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics – 2021
A major contribution to the data collection wave of the sixth edition was made within the framework of the LINCS project, implemented by the Council of Europe and co-founded by the Council of Europe and the European Commission.We are especially grateful to Ilina Taneva, Council of Europe, Strasbourg XII Preface Basically, all data included were originally collected by the national correspondents.The present document also includes, in chapter 4 an…
Victimisation et délinquance des jeunes Roms roumains en Suisse
Les Roms forment la plus grande minorité ethnique en Europe, mais peu d’études se sont focalisées sur la délinquance et la victimisation au sein de cette communauté. Cet article présente une recherche exploratoire portant sur la victimisation et la délinquance des jeunes Roms roumains en Suisse romande. L’étude suit une démarche mixte qui combine 130 heures d’observation participante avec un sondage de délinquance et victimisation autoreportée (N…
La gestion des informations dans le cadre de l’analyse criminelle de la délinquance sexuelle sérielle
Cette recherche s’intéresse à la quantité d’information nécessaire aux systèmes de gestion des liens permettant d’identifier les cas sériels de criminalité violente. L’objectif de cette recherche est de tester empiriquement et de discuter de la pertinence de réduire le contenu de ces outils. Les données utilisées proviennent d’une extraction de la base de données du ViCLAS en France. Les analyses portent sur un échantillon de variables les plus u…
Long-Term Trends in Crime
This chapter introduces the available research on long-term crime trends and shows the major role that cross-national comparisons have played since the nineteenth century, revealing that the first researchers were fully aware of such comparisons’ pitfalls. Since then, most research has focused on homicide trends—often used as a proxy for trends in all violent crime—in industrialized Western nations, because data are not widely available for other…
Aging Prisoners in Switzerland
Study findings underline that older prisoners utilized health care more often than younger prisoners although in most models the finding did not reach statistical significance. The prison system must develop solutions to address the needs of an aging population, particularly those with physical and mental health problems
Have community sanctions and measures widened the net of the European criminal justice systems
Analysing the evolution of imprisonment and community sanctions in Europe from 1990 to 2010 this article tests whether community sanctions have been used as alternatives to imprisonment or as supplementary sanctions. The results show that both the number of persons serving community sanctions and the number of inmates have continuously increased in almost all European countries during the period studied. A comparison with the evolution of crime r…
Les détenus étrangers en Europe
Cet article étudie la situation des étrangers détenus dans les prisons européennes ainsique son évolution entre 1989 et 2006. Les analyses sont basées sur des données issues desStatistiques Pénales Annuelles du Conseil de l’Europe (SPACE) qui portent sur les populations carcérales dans la presque totalité des pays européens. Elles s’intéressent notamment à la situation dans les États membres de l’Union Européenne (UE), tout en tenantcompte de la …
Les sondages de délinquance autoreportée
Cet article retrace les grandes étapes de l’évolution des sondages de délinquance autoreportée des années 1940 à nos jours. Des premières échelles de délinquance aux sondages autoadministrés les plus sophistiqués, l’apparition de nouvelles données est mise en parallèle avec la remise en question des théories classiques de la criminologie et le développement d’explications alternatives. Après avoir défini les concepts de fiabilité et de validité d…
Comment mesurer la délinquance des toxicomanes adultes ? Une comparaison empirique de la validité des registres de police et des sondages de délinquance autoreportée
Cet article se base sur une analyse comparative des interpellations enregistrées par la police et des délits admis par un échantillon de toxicomanes adultes dans le cadre d'un sondage de délinquance autoreportée. La moyenne d'âge des membres de l'échantillon (N=491 dont 135 femmes) est de 31 ans. Il s'agit de toxicomanes qui étaient très engagés dans la délinquance avant de participer aux essais suisses de prescription d'héroïne. Différents conce…
Crime and Punishment in Switzerland, 1985-1999
A recurring question in criminology has always been how the "costs of offending" (the risk of being convicted and sentenced to custody) relate to offending rates. Langan and Farrington's and Cusson's studies have renewed interest in this question. Examination of victim surveys and police and court statistics over nearly two decades produces mixed conclusions. Some of the offenses considered (burglary, motor vehicle theft, robbery, assault, rape, …
Tourisme et sécurité en Andalousie
L’article présente les résultats d’une enquête de victimation menée en Andalousie auprès de touristes (N = 2968) durant l’été 2002. Les taux de victimation sont relativement élevés, corroborant ainsi la pertinence des théories criminologiques axées sur les opportunités qui considèrent les touristes comme un groupe très exposé au risque d’être victime d’infractions. Néanmoins, la plupart des infractions subies – dont la moitié est dénoncée à la po…
Prescription médicale de stupéfiants et délinquance
Suite à l'aggravation du problème de la toxicomanie pendant les années 1980, la Suisse a commencé à appliquer une politique de la drogue diversifiée dont l'un des piliers s'inspire de l'approche de la réduction des risques. L'un des buts de cette politique est notamment la diminution des dommages collatéraux à la toxicomanie, telles certaines maladies infectieuses ou la délinquance liée à l'acquisition de drogues.Dans ce contexte, un programme de…
La relation entre cures de substitution à la méthadone et prévention de la délinquance
Cet article met en évidence les faiblesses méthodologiques d’une recherche publiée précédemment dans Déviance et Société (1999,23,4,437-445). Au lieu de mesurer l’impact des cures de substitution à la méthadone sur la délinquance des toxicomanes traités, la recherche en question a voulu mesurer leur impact sur l’ensemble de la délinquance liée à la toxicomanie à Genève. Il est démontré qu’il est alors indispensable de prendre en considération, en…
Does Community Service Rehabilitate better than Short‐term Imprisonment
Community service, along with other new sanctions, has been recommended in many Western countries as an alternative to incarceration over many years. Despite a rich literature on evaluations of so‐called alternative sanctions, random assignment has only exceptionally been used in this field, and (short‐term) imprisonment has never been an option in such designs. The present study tried to assess the comparative effects of community service and pr…
Have community sanctions and measures widened the net of the European criminal justice systems
Analysing the evolution of imprisonment and community sanctions in Europe from 1990 to 2010 this article tests whether community sanctions have been used as alternatives to imprisonment or as supplementary sanctions. The results show that both the number of persons serving community sanctions and the number of inmates have continuously increased in almost all European countries during the period studied. A comparison with the evolution of crime r…
Les sondages de délinquance autoreportée
Cet article retrace les grandes étapes de l’évolution des sondages de délinquance autoreportée des années 1940 à nos jours. Des premières échelles de délinquance aux sondages autoadministrés les plus sophistiqués, l’apparition de nouvelles données est mise en parallèle avec la remise en question des théories classiques de la criminologie et le développement d’explications alternatives. Après avoir défini les concepts de fiabilité et de validité d…
Prescription médicale de stupéfiants et délinquance
Suite à l'aggravation du problème de la toxicomanie pendant les années 1980, la Suisse a commencé à appliquer une politique de la drogue diversifiée dont l'un des piliers s'inspire de l'approche de la réduction des risques. L'un des buts de cette politique est notamment la diminution des dommages collatéraux à la toxicomanie, telles certaines maladies infectieuses ou la délinquance liée à l'acquisition de drogues.Dans ce contexte, un programme de…
Risky business
Many studies have analysed the violence to which sex workers (SWs) are exposed in countries where prostitution is criminalised, but violence in sex work when it is a legal and freelance activity has seldom been studied. This study is based on non-systematic participant observation and 14 interviews conducted with cisgender and transgender freelance SWs exercising their profession in Switzerland. Findings show that all the participants had been vi…
From Apparent Unity to Diversity
This paper presents a comprehensive study of penal policies of (former) Yugoslav countries in the last 70 years. The Yugoslavian penal policy has been unique in the sense of leniency but was by no means uniform in its implementation. A comparative analysis of the development of penal policy in the observed states, supported by statistical data on crime, conviction and prison populations, revealed that differences have been profound. While dispari…
Aging Prisoners in Switzerland
Study findings underline that older prisoners utilized health care more often than younger prisoners although in most models the finding did not reach statistical significance. The prison system must develop solutions to address the needs of an aging population, particularly those with physical and mental health problems
Comment mesurer la délinquance des toxicomanes adultes ? Une comparaison empirique de la validité des registres de police et des sondages de délinquance autoreportée
Cet article se base sur une analyse comparative des interpellations enregistrées par la police et des délits admis par un échantillon de toxicomanes adultes dans le cadre d'un sondage de délinquance autoreportée. La moyenne d'âge des membres de l'échantillon (N=491 dont 135 femmes) est de 31 ans. Il s'agit de toxicomanes qui étaient très engagés dans la délinquance avant de participer aux essais suisses de prescription d'héroïne. Différents conce…
Does Community Service Rehabilitate better than Short‐term Imprisonment
Community service, along with other new sanctions, has been recommended in many Western countries as an alternative to incarceration over many years. Despite a rich literature on evaluations of so‐called alternative sanctions, random assignment has only exceptionally been used in this field, and (short‐term) imprisonment has never been an option in such designs. The present study tried to assess the comparative effects of community service and pr…
La relation entre cures de substitution à la méthadone et prévention de la délinquance
Cet article met en évidence les faiblesses méthodologiques d’une recherche publiée précédemment dans Déviance et Société (1999,23,4,437-445). Au lieu de mesurer l’impact des cures de substitution à la méthadone sur la délinquance des toxicomanes traités, la recherche en question a voulu mesurer leur impact sur l’ensemble de la délinquance liée à la toxicomanie à Genève. Il est démontré qu’il est alors indispensable de prendre en considération, en…
Prescription médicale de stupéfiants et délinquance
Suite à l'aggravation du problème de la toxicomanie pendant les années 1980, la Suisse a commencé à appliquer une politique de la drogue diversifiée dont l'un des piliers s'inspire de l'approche de la réduction des risques. L'un des buts de cette politique est notamment la diminution des dommages collatéraux à la toxicomanie, telles certaines maladies infectieuses ou la délinquance liée à l'acquisition de drogues.Dans ce contexte, un programme de…
Tourisme et sécurité en Andalousie
L’article présente les résultats d’une enquête de victimation menée en Andalousie auprès de touristes (N = 2968) durant l’été 2002. Les taux de victimation sont relativement élevés, corroborant ainsi la pertinence des théories criminologiques axées sur les opportunités qui considèrent les touristes comme un groupe très exposé au risque d’être victime d’infractions. Néanmoins, la plupart des infractions subies – dont la moitié est dénoncée à la po…
Crime and Punishment in Switzerland, 1985-1999
A recurring question in criminology has always been how the "costs of offending" (the risk of being convicted and sentenced to custody) relate to offending rates. Langan and Farrington's and Cusson's studies have renewed interest in this question. Examination of victim surveys and police and court statistics over nearly two decades produces mixed conclusions. Some of the offenses considered (burglary, motor vehicle theft, robbery, assault, rape, …
Comment mesurer la délinquance des toxicomanes adultes ? Une comparaison empirique de la validité des registres de police et des sondages de délinquance autoreportée
Cet article se base sur une analyse comparative des interpellations enregistrées par la police et des délits admis par un échantillon de toxicomanes adultes dans le cadre d'un sondage de délinquance autoreportée. La moyenne d'âge des membres de l'échantillon (N=491 dont 135 femmes) est de 31 ans. Il s'agit de toxicomanes qui étaient très engagés dans la délinquance avant de participer aux essais suisses de prescription d'héroïne. Différents conce…
Les sondages de délinquance autoreportée
Cet article retrace les grandes étapes de l’évolution des sondages de délinquance autoreportée des années 1940 à nos jours. Des premières échelles de délinquance aux sondages autoadministrés les plus sophistiqués, l’apparition de nouvelles données est mise en parallèle avec la remise en question des théories classiques de la criminologie et le développement d’explications alternatives. Après avoir défini les concepts de fiabilité et de validité d…
Les détenus étrangers en Europe
Cet article étudie la situation des étrangers détenus dans les prisons européennes ainsique son évolution entre 1989 et 2006. Les analyses sont basées sur des données issues desStatistiques Pénales Annuelles du Conseil de l’Europe (SPACE) qui portent sur les populations carcérales dans la presque totalité des pays européens. Elles s’intéressent notamment à la situation dans les États membres de l’Union Européenne (UE), tout en tenantcompte de la …
Aging Prisoners in Switzerland
Study findings underline that older prisoners utilized health care more often than younger prisoners although in most models the finding did not reach statistical significance. The prison system must develop solutions to address the needs of an aging population, particularly those with physical and mental health problems
Have community sanctions and measures widened the net of the European criminal justice systems
Analysing the evolution of imprisonment and community sanctions in Europe from 1990 to 2010 this article tests whether community sanctions have been used as alternatives to imprisonment or as supplementary sanctions. The results show that both the number of persons serving community sanctions and the number of inmates have continuously increased in almost all European countries during the period studied. A comparison with the evolution of crime r…
Long-Term Trends in Crime
This chapter introduces the available research on long-term crime trends and shows the major role that cross-national comparisons have played since the nineteenth century, revealing that the first researchers were fully aware of such comparisons’ pitfalls. Since then, most research has focused on homicide trends—often used as a proxy for trends in all violent crime—in industrialized Western nations, because data are not widely available for other…
La gestion des informations dans le cadre de l’analyse criminelle de la délinquance sexuelle sérielle
Cette recherche s’intéresse à la quantité d’information nécessaire aux systèmes de gestion des liens permettant d’identifier les cas sériels de criminalité violente. L’objectif de cette recherche est de tester empiriquement et de discuter de la pertinence de réduire le contenu de ces outils. Les données utilisées proviennent d’une extraction de la base de données du ViCLAS en France. Les analyses portent sur un échantillon de variables les plus u…
Against All Odds, Femicide Did Not Increase During the First Year of the Covid-19 Pandemic
This paper tests a situational hypothesis which postulates that the number of femicides should increase as an unintended consequence of the COVID-19-related lockdowns. The monthly data on femicides from 2017 to 2020 collected in six Spanish-speaking countries—Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Panama, Mexico, and Spain—and analyzed using threshold models indicate that the hypothesis must be rejected. The total number of femicides in 2020 was similar to …
Crime, Criminal Justice, and the Covid-19 Crisis Lockdown
European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics – 2021
A major contribution to the data collection wave of the sixth edition was made within the framework of the LINCS project, implemented by the Council of Europe and co-founded by the Council of Europe and the European Commission.We are especially grateful to Ilina Taneva, Council of Europe, Strasbourg XII Preface Basically, all data included were originally collected by the national correspondents.The present document also includes, in chapter 4 an…
Victimisation et délinquance des jeunes Roms roumains en Suisse
Les Roms forment la plus grande minorité ethnique en Europe, mais peu d’études se sont focalisées sur la délinquance et la victimisation au sein de cette communauté. Cet article présente une recherche exploratoire portant sur la victimisation et la délinquance des jeunes Roms roumains en Suisse romande. L’étude suit une démarche mixte qui combine 130 heures d’observation participante avec un sondage de délinquance et victimisation autoreportée (N…
From Apparent Unity to Diversity
This paper presents a comprehensive study of penal policies of (former) Yugoslav countries in the last 70 years. The Yugoslavian penal policy has been unique in the sense of leniency but was by no means uniform in its implementation. A comparative analysis of the development of penal policy in the observed states, supported by statistical data on crime, conviction and prison populations, revealed that differences have been profound. While dispari…
Risky business
Many studies have analysed the violence to which sex workers (SWs) are exposed in countries where prostitution is criminalised, but violence in sex work when it is a legal and freelance activity has seldom been studied. This study is based on non-systematic participant observation and 14 interviews conducted with cisgender and transgender freelance SWs exercising their profession in Switzerland. Findings show that all the participants had been vi…
Theoretical Perspectives, Empirical Findings, and Policy Implications of Research on Femicide Before, During, and After the Covid-19 Pandemic
Understanding Crime Trends in a Hybrid Society
SpringerBriefs in Criminology present concise summaries of cutting edge research across the fields of Criminology and Criminal Justice.It publishes small but impactful volumes of between 50-125 pages, with a clearly defined focus.The series covers a broad range of Criminology research from experimental design and methods, to brief reports and regional studies, to policy-related applications.The scope of the series spans the whole field of Crimino…
Attrition in intimate partner violence cases through the criminal justice system
Intimate partner violence (IPV) poses significant social and legal challenges, with severe consequences for victims and society. Despite the criminal justice system’s crucial role, attrition – where reported cases diminish before prosecution – remains a major concern. This scoping review examines patterns and predictors influencing attrition in IPV cases, analysing 24 empirical studies. Findings reveal that 63% to 97.2% of reported cases do not r…
Questioning the economic conditions-imprisonment link
The relationship between economic conditions and imprisonment has long been debated in the political economy of punishment, with scholars, inspired by Rusche and Kirchheimer (1939), examining whether economic downturns increase incarceration rates. However, empirical findings remain inconclusive. This article reviews 47 longitudinal studies (1950s–2020s) testing this relationship, focusing on the data analysis techniques employed and their implic…
Under the shadow of the persistent offender
Contemporary criminological scholarship often portrays criminal records as a distinctly modern institution —invented in the nineteenth century and radically transformed by digitalization and post-1970s penal change. This article challenges that rupture narrative by tracing the deep history of criminal records and recidivism through Braudel's (1958) concept of the longue durée , a framework for analyzing structures that persist across centuries. F…
The Effect of Counting Rules on Cross-National Comparisons of Homicide
Cross-national crime comparisons often rely on police-recorded data. Most frequently, such comparisons focus on homicide, as it is expected to be the crime type least likely to go undetected. This study examines how different statistical counting rules and legal definitions employed across European countries affect the reliability of cross-national homicide comparisons. We analyze homicide data from 41 European countries (1998-2022) obtained from…
Political science (18 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (13 works) · Criminology (12 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (10 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Poison control (8 works) · Humanities (7 works) · Law (7 works)