Anat Berko

Biographic Data

ID6624333
NAMEAnat Berko
GIVEN NAMESAnat
FAMILY NAMEBerko
SIGNATUREBERKO A
AFFILIATIONSReichman University
ORCID0009-0008-4881-5264
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS24
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX3

  • The Smarter Bomb

    Open AccessAnat Berko, Elizabeth YuvalBOOKThe smarter bomb2012

    Introduction: Enough to Die, Not Good Enough to Marry Chapter 1: Just As Long As the Doesn't Make a Mistake Chapter 2: Hamas Deputy Prime Minister: Whoever Sends a Woman on a Terrorist Attack is Jahil Chapter 3: The Engineer: A Virgin in Paradise Is Like a Little Girl Chapter 4: Shari'a Judge: Lack Two Things: Intelligence and Religion Chapter 5: The Adolescent Terrorist: Go to Jail, Can Study For Matriculation Exams, Get Special Considerations I…

  • Pathways of Arab/ Palestinian Women in Israel to Crime and Imprisonment

    Open AccessEdna Erez, Anat BerkoARTICLEFeminist Criminology2010Cited by: 4References: 22

    Drawing on intersectionality theory, the article presents pathways of Arab/Palestinian in Israel to crime and imprisonment.The data base comprises of in-depth interviews of three groups: Arab/Palestinian women incarcerated in Israeli prisons for conventional offenses, law enforcement and corrections personnel, and Arab/Palestinian community leaders. Court and prison records were used to validate the interviews of the female offenders (N=10).The s…

  • Gender, Crime and Terrorism

    Anat Berko, Edna Erez et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Criminology2010Cited by: 4References: 11

    This article compares the background, motivation, pathways and prison experiences of Arab/Palestinian women who were imprisoned for conventional crimes with those who were incarcerated for security-related or terrorism offences. In-depth interviews of the two groups were conducted in the Israeli prisons in which they served their sentences. Prison personnel were also interviewed and court and prison files examined to validate the women's backgrou…

  • Talking with Terrorists

    Jerrold M Post, Anat BerkoARTICLEDemocracy and Security2009

    This brief paper addresses the common sense proposition that policies designed to counterterrorism must necessarily rest on a sophisticated understanding of the psychology of terrorists, and that the optimal path to understanding “what makes terrorists tick” is to ask them. But this in turn means talking with them, not interrogating them. The authors, both of whom have had extensive experience in talking with terrorists, present a number of guide…

  • The Path to Paradise

    Anat BerkoBOOKThe Path to Paradise2007

    Suicide bombers are often compared to smart bombs. From the point of view of their dispatchers, they are highly effective, inexpensive forms of weaponry, and there is no need to invest in their technological development. Suicide bombers are in fact smarter than smart bombs because they can choose their own target—and they can react to circumstances on the ground, changing their target, or their timing, in an instant, to ensure the maximum damage,…

  • Gender, Palestinian Women, and Terrorism

    Anat Berko, Edna ErezARTICLEStudies in Conflict and Terrorism2007Cited by: 16References: 4

    Prior literature on women's participation in terrorism has paradoxically interpreted this involvement as a sign of women's newfound empowerment, and as an indication of ongoing gender oppression. The study examines the hypothesis that Palestinian women's involvement in terrorism indicates women's liberation. The data are derived from in-depth interviews with fourteen women who were detained or incarcerated in Israeli prisons for security offenses…