Martin Killias

Martin Killias, born in 1948 in Zurich, is a Swiss criminologist who was a full professor at the University of Zurich and later, after his retirement, a permanent visiting professor at the University of St. Gallen's law school. From 1986 to 2006 he was professor of criminal law, criminal procedure and criminology at the University of Lausanne and director of that university's Institute of Criminology and Criminal Law, while also serving as a part-time judge of the Swiss Federal Court from 1984 to 2008. He chaired the European Society of Criminology in 2000 and 2001 and received its European Criminology Award for lifetime achievement in 2013, and he later co-chaired the Crime and Justice Group of the Campbell Collaboration, an international network promoting systematic reviews of criminal justice research.