ODEDA STEINBERG
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5237416 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | ODEDA STEINBERG |
| NOMBRES | ODEDA |
| APELLIDO | STEINBERG |
| FIRMA | STEINBERG O |
| AFILIACIONES | Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91909, Israel. |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 3 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Never Mind the Law
In 1988, Israel changed its rape laws, inflicting harsher penalties on convicted rapists. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this study compared punishment meted out before and after the reform and content analyzed the judicial discourse created in the courts in both periods. The findings revealed little change in the severity of sentencing and in judges' attitudes toward rapists, victims, and the crime. The mechanism of normalization al…
The Feminization of the Female Offender
This paper examines the construction of the female offender's image through an analysis of reports published in one major Israeli newspaper over the period 1987-1989 and in another during 1994. The study reveals that, while describing the offense or the formal social response to it, reporters tended to emphasize a whole range of details not directly connected to the crime or the punishment. These indirect details feminize the female offender, hig…
The Elasticity of the Law
The article examines the use of the ‘shadow of the law’ by a welfare agency in Israel, as a quasi-legal therapeutic technique in the treatment of adolescent girls defined as ‘at risk’. The method employs the threat of invoking the Youth Act, which empowers a judge to force minors to undergo treatment, if the girls fail to co-operate with Unit workers. Treatment in the ‘shadow of the law’ is supported and legitimized by a mixture of diagnostic, ps…
Never Mind the Law
In 1988, Israel changed its rape laws, inflicting harsher penalties on convicted rapists. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this study compared punishment meted out before and after the reform and content analyzed the judicial discourse created in the courts in both periods. The findings revealed little change in the severity of sentencing and in judges' attitudes toward rapists, victims, and the crime. The mechanism of normalization al…
The Elasticity of the Law
The article examines the use of the ‘shadow of the law’ by a welfare agency in Israel, as a quasi-legal therapeutic technique in the treatment of adolescent girls defined as ‘at risk’. The method employs the threat of invoking the Youth Act, which empowers a judge to force minors to undergo treatment, if the girls fail to co-operate with Unit workers. Treatment in the ‘shadow of the law’ is supported and legitimized by a mixture of diagnostic, ps…
The Feminization of the Female Offender
This paper examines the construction of the female offender's image through an analysis of reports published in one major Israeli newspaper over the period 1987-1989 and in another during 1994. The study reveals that, while describing the offense or the formal social response to it, reporters tended to emphasize a whole range of details not directly connected to the crime or the punishment. These indirect details feminize the female offender, hig…
Never Mind the Law
In 1988, Israel changed its rape laws, inflicting harsher penalties on convicted rapists. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this study compared punishment meted out before and after the reform and content analyzed the judicial discourse created in the courts in both periods. The findings revealed little change in the severity of sentencing and in judges' attitudes toward rapists, victims, and the crime. The mechanism of normalization al…
Law (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Social Psychology (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 obras) · Criminology (2 obras) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (2 obras) · Social science (2 obras) · Agency (philosophy) (1 obras)