NCJ Number
207370
Editor(s)
Shlomo G. Shoham,
Paul Knepper
Date Published
2004
Length
171 pages
Annotation
Seven papers on criminological theory and research include works pertinent to Israel by Israelis and Israeli emigres, along with contributions by other international criminologists on wider issues in criminology.
Abstract
The volume opens with a theoretical work that explores the ideology of fundamentalist Islam. It emphasizes that fundamentalist Islam, with a mindset that produces suicide-bombings, does not limit its targets to Israeli victims and institutions of democracy, but rather has the broad goal of eradicating the non-Islamic culture of the Western world. A second theoretical paper focuses on Karl Popper's social philosophy as applied to Ronald Clarke's concept of situational crime prevention. Two papers describe aspects of Israeli criminal justice. A paper that describes drug treatment services in Israel reviews them within three historical periods -- 1948-67, 1968-89, and 1990 to the present -- with attention to the current situation. The second paper on Israeli criminal justice reports on a study of a program for the rehabilitation of discharged prisoners inaugurated by the Kibbutz Movement in Israel in the early 1980's. Another two articles address crime problems in Israel and the criminal justice response, namely, trafficking in women for prostitution and violence against women in the Arab/Palestinian community and the police response. The concluding paper focuses on crime in the Mediterranean nation of Cyprus. Although it does not deal directly with Israel, Cyprus, like Israel, has had to deal with issues related to immigration and crime. Chapter notes