Yael Cohen‐Rimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5579950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yael Cohen‐Rimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yael |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen‐Rimer |
| SIGNATURE | RIMER Y C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6696-5428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Forever young, forever helpable: The performative submissiveness catch in juvenile courts
Socio-legal research has traced the rise of hybrid legal regimes that combine punitive and welfare logic. This article advances this scholarship by theorizing what performative legality—legal practices where speech acts, rituals, and staged interactions shape subjects, but with the ultimate authority monopolized by state actors—does within such hybrid systems. I develop the concept of the Performative Submissiveness Catch to describe the paradoxi…
Poverty Has Nothing to Do with It”: Criministrative Law and a Call for Poverty Awareness in Child Protection Procedures in Israeli Juvenile Courts
This article examines Israeli juvenile courts as sites where poverty is present yet systematically denied as a cause of child neglect. Drawing on focused ethnographic observations, I show how factual reports routinely document material deprivation—housing shortages, lack of food, utilities cutoffs—yet court actors reject poverty as a legitimate explanation for neglect. Instead, they insist that “good parents” should be able to cope with scarcity,…
Criministrative Law: Data-Collection, Surveillance, and the Individualization Project in U.S. Child Welfare Law
Textual analyses of child welfare laws, joined by extensive textual and legal analyses of case law, reveal how the “dance” between the administrative and the criminal in child protective services (CPS) is rooted in the individualized perception of poverty. This individualization, which forms the bedrock of the capitalist American welfare state, promotes the fragmentation of the family unit. Building on individualized perception and reifying it, c…
What's Choice Got to Do With It? Addressing the Pitfalls of Using Choice‐Architecture Discourse Within Poverty Law
In legal scholarship, as in other fields, it would seem that ‘choice‐architecture’ (where states attempt to ‘move’ people toward desired behaviour) is everywhere. This paper argues that such blanket adoption of choice‐architecture discourse cannot be based on generic terms, nor on imagined or assumed choices. Rather, I contend, the specific characteristics of each legal field – here, poverty law – should be considered when debating and reviewing …
Participation in welfare legislation—A poverty‐aware paradigm
Public participation, responsive regulation, and other policy formulations are intended to draw governments down from their ivory towers and into engagement with the people. However, they paint at best, a hazy picture of who “the people” are. This superficial representation is felt, among other collectives, by people living in poverty, who not only face hunger, often accompanied by poorer health and lower life expectancy, but whose social exclusi…
Deservingness on Trial: Neutralisation Techniques in Public Housing Jurisprudence
How do judges formulate their written decisions when rejecting plaintiffs’ requests in a welfare context? In this paper, based on our thematic analysis, we show how judges construct a nuanced concept of ‘welfare deservingness’ to narratively mitigate their own moral and emotional tensions when making decisions on remedies in public-housing cases. Deploying a notion borrowed from criminology—‘neutralisation techniques’—we discuss the material and …
Participation in welfare legislation—A poverty‐aware paradigm
Public participation, responsive regulation, and other policy formulations are intended to draw governments down from their ivory towers and into engagement with the people. However, they paint at best, a hazy picture of who “the people” are. This superficial representation is felt, among other collectives, by people living in poverty, who not only face hunger, often accompanied by poorer health and lower life expectancy, but whose social exclusi…
Participation in welfare legislation—A poverty‐aware paradigm
Public participation, responsive regulation, and other policy formulations are intended to draw governments down from their ivory towers and into engagement with the people. However, they paint at best, a hazy picture of who “the people” are. This superficial representation is felt, among other collectives, by people living in poverty, who not only face hunger, often accompanied by poorer health and lower life expectancy, but whose social exclusi…
Deservingness on Trial: Neutralisation Techniques in Public Housing Jurisprudence
How do judges formulate their written decisions when rejecting plaintiffs’ requests in a welfare context? In this paper, based on our thematic analysis, we show how judges construct a nuanced concept of ‘welfare deservingness’ to narratively mitigate their own moral and emotional tensions when making decisions on remedies in public-housing cases. Deploying a notion borrowed from criminology—‘neutralisation techniques’—we discuss the material and …
What's Choice Got to Do With It? Addressing the Pitfalls of Using Choice‐Architecture Discourse Within Poverty Law
In legal scholarship, as in other fields, it would seem that ‘choice‐architecture’ (where states attempt to ‘move’ people toward desired behaviour) is everywhere. This paper argues that such blanket adoption of choice‐architecture discourse cannot be based on generic terms, nor on imagined or assumed choices. Rather, I contend, the specific characteristics of each legal field – here, poverty law – should be considered when debating and reviewing …
Criministrative Law: Data-Collection, Surveillance, and the Individualization Project in U.S. Child Welfare Law
Textual analyses of child welfare laws, joined by extensive textual and legal analyses of case law, reveal how the “dance” between the administrative and the criminal in child protective services (CPS) is rooted in the individualized perception of poverty. This individualization, which forms the bedrock of the capitalist American welfare state, promotes the fragmentation of the family unit. Building on individualized perception and reifying it, c…
Forever young, forever helpable: The performative submissiveness catch in juvenile courts
Socio-legal research has traced the rise of hybrid legal regimes that combine punitive and welfare logic. This article advances this scholarship by theorizing what performative legality—legal practices where speech acts, rituals, and staged interactions shape subjects, but with the ultimate authority monopolized by state actors—does within such hybrid systems. I develop the concept of the Performative Submissiveness Catch to describe the paradoxi…
Poverty Has Nothing to Do with It”: Criministrative Law and a Call for Poverty Awareness in Child Protection Procedures in Israeli Juvenile Courts
This article examines Israeli juvenile courts as sites where poverty is present yet systematically denied as a cause of child neglect. Drawing on focused ethnographic observations, I show how factual reports routinely document material deprivation—housing shortages, lack of food, utilities cutoffs—yet court actors reject poverty as a legitimate explanation for neglect. Instead, they insist that “good parents” should be able to cope with scarcity,…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law in Society and Culture (3 works) · Poverty (3 works) · Scholarship (3 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works) · Denial (2 works)