Sergio Herzog
Biographic Data
| ID | 3846405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sergio Herzog |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sergio |
| FAMILY NAME | Herzog |
| SIGNATURE | HERZOG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Predicting Israeli Public Support for Capital Punishment: Crime Type and Severity, Offender, Observer, and Victim Characteristics
This study investigates whether crime type and severity, as well as offender, observer, and victim characteristics predict public attitudes towards capital punishment in Israel. We surveyed Israeli citizens by phone. A random and representative sample of 594 participants, ages 20 to 74, read scenarios illustrating crimes and were asked about their perception of capital punishment as an appropriate punishment. The results indicate that most partic…
Punitiveness Toward Terrorists: Terrorist Act Type and Harmfulness, Terrorist Ethnicity and Gender, and Participants’ Authoritarian Tendency
This study examines the relationships between public punitiveness toward terrorists and factors such as terrorist act type, harmfulness, terrorist ethnicity, and gender, and participant’s authoritarian tendencies. An online survey with 679 Israeli Jewish and Arab participants manipulated terrorist act type, harmfulness, gender, and ethnicity. Participants rated crime seriousness, punishment severity, imprisonment length (IL), support for capital …
Police officers' acceptance of community policing strategy in Israel and their attitudes towards the Arab minority
Police racism and prejudice against minorities are believed to impede law enforcing agencies' ability to equitably perform their job. One factor driving police forces throughout the world to adopt community policing was their will to ameliorate relations with minority groups. In the Israeli case, a survey of 643 police officers and police managers reveals that positive attitudes towards community policing correlate with positive attitudes towards…
Ethnic and immigrant residential concentration, and crime rates
Chivalry and the Moderating Effect of Ambivalent Sexism: Individual Differences in Crime Seriousness Judgments
Previous studies have shown that female offenders frequently receive more lenient judgments than equivalent males. Chivalry theories argue that such leniency is the result of paternalistic, benevolent attitudes toward women, in particular toward those who fulfill stereotypical female roles. Yet to date, studies have not examined whether such leniency is indeed associated with paternalistic societal attitudes toward women. The present study goes b…
An Empirical Test of Feminist Theory and Research: The Effect of Heterogeneous Gender-Role Attitudes on Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence
Feminist empirical research, which consistently shows a positive relationship between traditional gender-role attitudes toward women and tolerant perceptions of male violence against intimate female partners, ignores the heterogeneity of these attitudes. New scholarship reveals that they are not necessarily blatant, hostile, and negative but are more complex, involving covertly and even overtly benevolent references to women. A sample of Israelis…
Public Perceptions of Sexual Harassment: An Empirical Analysis in Israel from Consensus and Feminist Theoretical Perspectives
The Relationship between Economic Hardship and Crime: The Case of Israel and the Palestinians
Numerous theories of crime posit a positive relation between economic hardship and crime, among them rational choice, strain, anomie, social control, and even neo-Marxist models. The present study focuses on the unique framework provided by the large integrated labor force of Palestinian workers employed in Israel over the past few decades. The study was based on time-series analysis of a restricted time period characterized by severe economic ha…
The Effect of Motive on Public Perceptions of the Seriousness of Murder in Israel
Previous research has consistently shown that the public considers murder to be the most serious of criminal offences and that it evaluates the seriousness of such cases on the basis of criminal intent. These findings are widely reflected in formal criminal codes and, therefore, provide support for the consensus model of the criminal law. Pursuant to the consensus–conflict controversy, the aim of this study was to examine whether lack of formal r…
Public perceptions of crime seriousness in Israel
Religiosity and Perceptions of Crime Seriousness by Jewish and Muslim Respondents in Israel
Most empirical research has attempted to demonstrate the relationship between religiosityandcriminal behavior principally onthebasis of self-reported measures of criminality. The present study analyzed the influence of individual religiosity on personal perceptions of the seriousness of a variety of criminal offenses. Findings obtained from a national sample of Israeli respondents with varyingdegrees of religiosity and belonging to two different …
Police Violence in Israel: Has the Establishment of a Civilian Complaints Board Made a Difference
Police violence in Israel was analyzed, especially how the establishment in 1992 of a civilian board for the investigation of police officers accused of using illegal force affected complaints against them. Official figures show a sharp increase in the number of files opened against police officers in general, and particularly those concerned with suspected use of illegal force, since 1992. This trend seems not to reflect actual worsening of poli…
Empirical Analysis of Motor Vehicle Theft in Israel, 1990-97
Trends in motor vehicle theft in Israel over the past decade are distinctly different from those found in other Western countries. This study used formal crime data to gain understanding of the offence and the offenders involved in it. The data were analysed by logistic regression models, the final condition of the stolen motor vehicle serving as the dependent variable classifying the theft and the offender. The findings showed an increase in the…
Does proactive policing make a difference in crime? An implementation of problem‐solving policing in Israel
Recent years have witnessed increasing awareness of the need for a structural change in the traditional perspective of the police on their activities. Specifically, serious criticism has been directed against the reactive nature of police work and there has been a call for the development of preventive and proactive strategies. The present study focused on the evaluation of one such strategy, called ‘'problem‐oriented policing,’’ implemented in a…
Militarization and demilitarization processes in the Israeli and American police forces: Organizational and social aspects
Mainly during the first half of the 20th century American police departments tended to adopt a military organizational structure and pattern of work due to a gradual process within them of professionalization and consequently militarization. In the 1960s this approach started to draw criticism, leading to a demand for the development of a more ‘civilian’ rather than ‘military’ model of policing. Paradoxically, a renewed trend of militarization wa…
Suspect Police Officers Investigated by Former Police Officers: Good Idea, Bad Idea
Up to 1992, all illegal use‐of‐force complaints against police officers in Israel were handled internally by the police department. In 1992, following public and political pressure, an external civilian board was established to handle such cases. In this framework, investigations of suspect police officers are conducted by former police officers. In this study, investigators’ and suspects’ personal and organizational characteristics were examined…
Is there a distinct profile of police officers accused of violence? The Israeli case
Chivalry and the Moderating Effect of Ambivalent Sexism: Individual Differences in Crime Seriousness Judgments
Previous studies have shown that female offenders frequently receive more lenient judgments than equivalent males. Chivalry theories argue that such leniency is the result of paternalistic, benevolent attitudes toward women, in particular toward those who fulfill stereotypical female roles. Yet to date, studies have not examined whether such leniency is indeed associated with paternalistic societal attitudes toward women. The present study goes b…
Public Perceptions of Sexual Harassment: An Empirical Analysis in Israel from Consensus and Feminist Theoretical Perspectives
Religiosity and Perceptions of Crime Seriousness by Jewish and Muslim Respondents in Israel
Most empirical research has attempted to demonstrate the relationship between religiosityandcriminal behavior principally onthebasis of self-reported measures of criminality. The present study analyzed the influence of individual religiosity on personal perceptions of the seriousness of a variety of criminal offenses. Findings obtained from a national sample of Israeli respondents with varyingdegrees of religiosity and belonging to two different …
Militarization and demilitarization processes in the Israeli and American police forces: Organizational and social aspects
Mainly during the first half of the 20th century American police departments tended to adopt a military organizational structure and pattern of work due to a gradual process within them of professionalization and consequently militarization. In the 1960s this approach started to draw criticism, leading to a demand for the development of a more ‘civilian’ rather than ‘military’ model of policing. Paradoxically, a renewed trend of militarization wa…
An Empirical Test of Feminist Theory and Research: The Effect of Heterogeneous Gender-Role Attitudes on Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence
Feminist empirical research, which consistently shows a positive relationship between traditional gender-role attitudes toward women and tolerant perceptions of male violence against intimate female partners, ignores the heterogeneity of these attitudes. New scholarship reveals that they are not necessarily blatant, hostile, and negative but are more complex, involving covertly and even overtly benevolent references to women. A sample of Israelis…
Police officers' acceptance of community policing strategy in Israel and their attitudes towards the Arab minority
Police racism and prejudice against minorities are believed to impede law enforcing agencies' ability to equitably perform their job. One factor driving police forces throughout the world to adopt community policing was their will to ameliorate relations with minority groups. In the Israeli case, a survey of 643 police officers and police managers reveals that positive attitudes towards community policing correlate with positive attitudes towards…
Ethnic and immigrant residential concentration, and crime rates
Empirical Analysis of Motor Vehicle Theft in Israel, 1990-97
Trends in motor vehicle theft in Israel over the past decade are distinctly different from those found in other Western countries. This study used formal crime data to gain understanding of the offence and the offenders involved in it. The data were analysed by logistic regression models, the final condition of the stolen motor vehicle serving as the dependent variable classifying the theft and the offender. The findings showed an increase in the…
Does proactive policing make a difference in crime? An implementation of problem‐solving policing in Israel
Recent years have witnessed increasing awareness of the need for a structural change in the traditional perspective of the police on their activities. Specifically, serious criticism has been directed against the reactive nature of police work and there has been a call for the development of preventive and proactive strategies. The present study focused on the evaluation of one such strategy, called ‘'problem‐oriented policing,’’ implemented in a…
Is there a distinct profile of police officers accused of violence? The Israeli case
The Relationship between Economic Hardship and Crime: The Case of Israel and the Palestinians
Numerous theories of crime posit a positive relation between economic hardship and crime, among them rational choice, strain, anomie, social control, and even neo-Marxist models. The present study focuses on the unique framework provided by the large integrated labor force of Palestinian workers employed in Israel over the past few decades. The study was based on time-series analysis of a restricted time period characterized by severe economic ha…
Is there a distinct profile of police officers accused of violence? The Israeli case
Militarization and demilitarization processes in the Israeli and American police forces: Organizational and social aspects
Mainly during the first half of the 20th century American police departments tended to adopt a military organizational structure and pattern of work due to a gradual process within them of professionalization and consequently militarization. In the 1960s this approach started to draw criticism, leading to a demand for the development of a more ‘civilian’ rather than ‘military’ model of policing. Paradoxically, a renewed trend of militarization wa…
Suspect Police Officers Investigated by Former Police Officers: Good Idea, Bad Idea
Up to 1992, all illegal use‐of‐force complaints against police officers in Israel were handled internally by the police department. In 1992, following public and political pressure, an external civilian board was established to handle such cases. In this framework, investigations of suspect police officers are conducted by former police officers. In this study, investigators’ and suspects’ personal and organizational characteristics were examined…
Police Violence in Israel: Has the Establishment of a Civilian Complaints Board Made a Difference
Police violence in Israel was analyzed, especially how the establishment in 1992 of a civilian board for the investigation of police officers accused of using illegal force affected complaints against them. Official figures show a sharp increase in the number of files opened against police officers in general, and particularly those concerned with suspected use of illegal force, since 1992. This trend seems not to reflect actual worsening of poli…
Empirical Analysis of Motor Vehicle Theft in Israel, 1990-97
Trends in motor vehicle theft in Israel over the past decade are distinctly different from those found in other Western countries. This study used formal crime data to gain understanding of the offence and the offenders involved in it. The data were analysed by logistic regression models, the final condition of the stolen motor vehicle serving as the dependent variable classifying the theft and the offender. The findings showed an increase in the…
Does proactive policing make a difference in crime? An implementation of problem‐solving policing in Israel
Recent years have witnessed increasing awareness of the need for a structural change in the traditional perspective of the police on their activities. Specifically, serious criticism has been directed against the reactive nature of police work and there has been a call for the development of preventive and proactive strategies. The present study focused on the evaluation of one such strategy, called ‘'problem‐oriented policing,’’ implemented in a…
Public perceptions of crime seriousness in Israel
Religiosity and Perceptions of Crime Seriousness by Jewish and Muslim Respondents in Israel
Most empirical research has attempted to demonstrate the relationship between religiosityandcriminal behavior principally onthebasis of self-reported measures of criminality. The present study analyzed the influence of individual religiosity on personal perceptions of the seriousness of a variety of criminal offenses. Findings obtained from a national sample of Israeli respondents with varyingdegrees of religiosity and belonging to two different …
The Effect of Motive on Public Perceptions of the Seriousness of Murder in Israel
Previous research has consistently shown that the public considers murder to be the most serious of criminal offences and that it evaluates the seriousness of such cases on the basis of criminal intent. These findings are widely reflected in formal criminal codes and, therefore, provide support for the consensus model of the criminal law. Pursuant to the consensus–conflict controversy, the aim of this study was to examine whether lack of formal r…
The Relationship between Economic Hardship and Crime: The Case of Israel and the Palestinians
Numerous theories of crime posit a positive relation between economic hardship and crime, among them rational choice, strain, anomie, social control, and even neo-Marxist models. The present study focuses on the unique framework provided by the large integrated labor force of Palestinian workers employed in Israel over the past few decades. The study was based on time-series analysis of a restricted time period characterized by severe economic ha…
An Empirical Test of Feminist Theory and Research: The Effect of Heterogeneous Gender-Role Attitudes on Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence
Feminist empirical research, which consistently shows a positive relationship between traditional gender-role attitudes toward women and tolerant perceptions of male violence against intimate female partners, ignores the heterogeneity of these attitudes. New scholarship reveals that they are not necessarily blatant, hostile, and negative but are more complex, involving covertly and even overtly benevolent references to women. A sample of Israelis…
Public Perceptions of Sexual Harassment: An Empirical Analysis in Israel from Consensus and Feminist Theoretical Perspectives
Chivalry and the Moderating Effect of Ambivalent Sexism: Individual Differences in Crime Seriousness Judgments
Previous studies have shown that female offenders frequently receive more lenient judgments than equivalent males. Chivalry theories argue that such leniency is the result of paternalistic, benevolent attitudes toward women, in particular toward those who fulfill stereotypical female roles. Yet to date, studies have not examined whether such leniency is indeed associated with paternalistic societal attitudes toward women. The present study goes b…
Ethnic and immigrant residential concentration, and crime rates
Police officers' acceptance of community policing strategy in Israel and their attitudes towards the Arab minority
Police racism and prejudice against minorities are believed to impede law enforcing agencies' ability to equitably perform their job. One factor driving police forces throughout the world to adopt community policing was their will to ameliorate relations with minority groups. In the Israeli case, a survey of 643 police officers and police managers reveals that positive attitudes towards community policing correlate with positive attitudes towards…
Predicting Israeli Public Support for Capital Punishment: Crime Type and Severity, Offender, Observer, and Victim Characteristics
This study investigates whether crime type and severity, as well as offender, observer, and victim characteristics predict public attitudes towards capital punishment in Israel. We surveyed Israeli citizens by phone. A random and representative sample of 594 participants, ages 20 to 74, read scenarios illustrating crimes and were asked about their perception of capital punishment as an appropriate punishment. The results indicate that most partic…
Punitiveness Toward Terrorists: Terrorist Act Type and Harmfulness, Terrorist Ethnicity and Gender, and Participants’ Authoritarian Tendency
This study examines the relationships between public punitiveness toward terrorists and factors such as terrorist act type, harmfulness, terrorist ethnicity, and gender, and participant’s authoritarian tendencies. An online survey with 679 Israeli Jewish and Arab participants manipulated terrorist act type, harmfulness, gender, and ethnicity. Participants rated crime seriousness, punishment severity, imprisonment length (IL), support for capital …
Criminology (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Perception (6 works)