Автор: Efrat Shoham

Prof. Efrat Shoham is a senior criminologist in Ashkelon Academic College, Israel. She is chairperson of the Israeli Society of Criminology, and the research committee of the Israeli Prisoners Rehabilitation Authority. As well, she is director of the Sha”am Institute for Research on the Reintegration of released Prisoners in the Community, and co-editor of the Israeli Criminology journal.  Over the last decade Prof. Shoham has published many articles on social control and criminal behavior in segregated communities, as well as on rehabilitation of released prisoners and policing of domestic violence. Some of her recent books are: “The Dark Side of the Sun:  Social Control and Deviance in total Institutions”; ” False Convictions in Israel”; “Supervision of Sex Offenders: Treatment or Punishment; ” Cults, Violence and Sex: The social Construction of Deviance in post-modern Israel” ; and “Glimpse behind the Walls”.