Crime and Criminal Justice in Israel: Assessing the Knowledge Base toward the Twenty-First Century

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CONTENTS Preface PART 1 THEORY 1 The Study of Crime and Social Control in Israel: Some Theoretical Observations • Mimi Ajzenstadt 2 Patterned Deviance • Chanoch Jacobsen 3 Criminal Justice in Israel • Gad J. Bensinger PART 2 THE EPIDEMIOLOGY AND ETIOLOGY OF CRIME IN ISRAEL 4 Criminal Statistics • Giora Rahav 5 Juvenile Delinquency • Giora Rahav 6 Crimes of Violence in Israel: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives • Simha F. Landau 7 Organized Crime in Israel • Menachem Amir 8 Political Violence: Political Assassinations as a Quest for Justice • Nachman Ben-Yehuda PART 3 LAW AND LAW ENFORCEMENT vii 3 27 43 65 79 97 121 139 9 Criminal Law in Israel • Mordechai Kremnitzer 185 10 Police and Police Reform in Israel: The Formative Role of the State • Erella Shadmi 207 P ART 4 CORRECTIONS 11 Punishment, Prisoners' Rights and Pardons • Leon Shele{{ v 245 Vl CONTENTS 12 The Israeli Prison System • Gavriel Shavitt 13 Juvenile and Adult Probation in Israel • Yael Hassin and Menachem Horovitz 14 Rehabilitation Efforts in the Israel Prison Service • Yochanan Wozner PART 5 VICTIMOI.OGY 15 Victimological Research in Israel: Past and Current Perspectives • Simha F. Landau and Leslie Sebba PART 6 DISCUSSION 16 Assessing the Knowledge-Base toward the Twenty-First Century • Robert R. Friedmann Contributors Index 275 315 337 359 391 419 423 ...