Mimi Ajzenstadt
Biographic Data
| ID | 75018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mimi Ajzenstadt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mimi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ajzenstadt |
| SIGNATURE | AJZENSTADT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Generative AI-driven employment recommendations for individuals with disabilities
Persons with disabilities need to make informed choices regarding their preferred employment setting. Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) may help provide such information. This study examined the employment recommendations provided by GAI to hypothetical individuals with disabilities. As access to employment among women with disabilities is reduced compared to men, this study focused specifically on women. Three vignettes describing a woman…
A qualitative study of women care professionals' experiences in social service non-profit organizations in Israel
Although women play a significant role in non-profit organizations as employees, volunteers, and clients, there is insufficient knowledge about these women and their unique work experiences in the current era, which is characterized by outsourcing of social services. This study explored work experiences among women in professional care settings of social service non-profit organizations (SSNPOs). Forty in-depth interviews were conducted with wome…
Arab Youth Involvement in Delinquent Behaviors: Exploring Hirschi’s Social Bond Theory from a Qualitative Perspective
The current study is based on Travis Hirschi’s social bond theory, arguing that the debut of delinquent behavior is a result of the weakening of the ties that bind people to society. According to Hirschi’s social bond theory, all youth have the potential to commit delinquent behaviors, but they are kept under control by their relationships with friends, parents, neighbors, teachers, and employers. These factors could serve as protective factors f…
Grounding responsibilization: Women in the care professions in contracted social services nonprofits
Activist Mothers in Need of Public Housing and the Welfare Services: Negotiating Othering, Mothering and Resistance
Recent decades have witnessed an increasing trend towards the development of critical approaches to the study of poverty, which call upon social workers to perceive people living in poverty as active agents who resist their condition. Relatively few studies, however, have examined how women living in poverty, who embody collective-political agency, experience the encounter with the welfare services, and how their manner of organisation is shaped …
Politicisation processes in everyday practice with refugees: The experiences of Israeli and German social workers
This article deals with the political context of social work practice with refugees. Specifically, it addresses the ways politics and policies that derive from them, interplay with social workers’ perceptions and constructions regarding their daily practice. It is based on findings from a qualitative study that included 22 in-depth interviews with Israeli and German social workers who work with refugees. Working in a ‘highly political’ field mean…
Beyond control: The criminalization of African asylum seekers in Israel
This article analyzes the discursive process of criminalization of African asylum seekers in Israel. The Israeli case illuminates the way that marginalized social groups are constructed as a criminal threat, thus becoming a focal point of moral panic. Using content analysis, in-depth interviews and observations, we assert that the criminalization of asylum seekers is facilitated by their portrayal as ‘infiltrators’ who are beyond state control. S…
Normative identity construction among women diagnosed with a gambling disorder
Women with a gambling problem bear a negative social stigma. Based on the theory of symbolic interactionism, this study examined the construction of social identities by 17 Israeli women diagnosed with a gambling disorder. Interpretive interactionist analysis revealed how they construct their identity through correspondence with patterns of behavior that are perceived as normative, and identified 3 major themes: "I'm not actually a gambler" (the …
The Long Path from a Soup Kitchen to a Welfare State in Israel
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The Cultural Context of Juvenile Justice Policy in Israel
The paper explores the evolution of rehabilitative, rights and economic discourses, and their effect on the development of juvenile justice policies in Israel during the last two decades. Israel has adopted the main features of a neo-liberal regime and severe cuts were made to major social welfare programmes, including those dealing with juvenile offenders. However, the neo-liberal ideas of individualisation and responsibilisation did not penetra…
Risk factors for involvement in delinquency among immigrants and native-born Israeli girls
The Socio-Legal Construction of Otherness Under * a Neo-Liberal Regime: The Case of Foreign Workers in the Israeli Criminal Courts
This paper attempts to reveal the ways in which criminal courts in Israel constructed foreign workers brought to trial as ‘others’. Individual foreign workers were framed as being irrelevant as bearers of rights while, in a parallel process, foreign workers as a group were constructed as symbolically relevant to discussions regarding the state governance of social risk. The study spans the years 1994–2011, when Israel adopted a new neo-liberal re…
Pathological Women Gamblers: Gender-Related Aspects of Control
Children, Gender and Families in Mediterranean Welfare States
Women, Welfare and Civil Society Organizations: Creating an Alternative Women's Welfare Sphere in Israel
This article examines the phenomenon of Israeli civil society organizations (CSOs) providing services to women as part of the creation of an alternative women's welfare sphere in Israel in recent years, and its influence upon the welfare state and women. The creation and the existence of the women's civil society sphere can be seen as part of a move by the Israeli welfare state towards a liberal-style economic regime. The article examines the ser…
Stigma and Otherness in the Israeli Media's Mirror Representations of Illness
In this study we examined the social construction of stigma toward HIV/AIDS in the Israeli press by comparing newspaper articles on HIV/AIDS, a highly stigmatized illness, and heart disease, a nonstigmatized illness in Israel. We carried out thematic content analysis of 242 newspaper articles published over a 12-month period. Two counter themes emerged from the analysis. HIV/AIDS was portrayed as a "foreign illness" mainly afflicting immigrants f…
The relative autonomy of women offenders' decision making
The article analyses the accounts of incarcerated females in Israel, examining the extent to which they were active, rational agents making choices regarding their criminality. The theoretical framework underlying this analysis views the criminal decision-making process with the agency/structure nexus. It indicates that the women were actively seeking normative means to satisfy their feelings of belonging, to gain economic benefits and feel safe,…
Moral Panic and Neo-Liberalism: The Case of Single Mothers on Welfare in Israel
Journal Article Moral Panic and Neo-Liberalism: The Case of Single Mothers on Welfare in Israel Get access Mimi Ajzenstadt Mimi Ajzenstadt * *Dr, Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 68–87, https://doi.…
Terrorism and risk management: The Israeli case
Throughout the past few decades, Israel has developed a set of legal, criminal justice and other law enforcement initiatives under the broad category of 'counter-terrorism policy'. This policy attempts both to separate and manage more effectively a group of suspected and accused terrorists. This article utilizes the New Penology perspective to trace the ways in which notions of risk and dangerousness are embedded in the counter-terrorism discours…
Reactions to Juvenile Delinquency in Israel, 1950–1970: A Social Narrative
This article follows the ways through which the concept of juvenile delinquency has been created in the legal and social discourse in Israel. It compares the discourse and resulting social policies regarding juvenile delinquency mainly in two social groups: “middle-class” offenders (youth from high socioeconomic families who immigrated to Israel before 1948); and “lower class” offenders (Middle Eastern “Oriental” youth from low socioeconomic fami…
Stories About Child Sexual Abuse: Textual Analysis of Instruction Manuals in Israel
This paper overviews the socio-historical background underlying the construction of child abuse as a public issue in Israel, and analyzes one cultural product of this process-textbooks and manuals on child sexual abuse prevention. Analysis of the Israeli narratives reveals that they mimic American counterparts and address an ideal Jewish middle-class, ignoring other societal sectors. The narratives individualize and medicalize both victim and abu…
Crime, Social Control, and the Process of Social Classification: Juvenile Delinquency/ Justice Discourse in Israel, 1948-1970
Journal Article Crime, Social Control, and the Process of Social Classification: Juvenile Delinquency/Justice Discourse in Israel, 1948-1970 Get access Mimi Ajzenstadt Mimi Ajzenstadt Hebrew University of Jerusalem Direct correspondence to: Dr. Mimi Ajzenstadt, The Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel 91905. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
The Sexual Body of the Young Jew as an Arena of Ideological Struggle, 1821-1948
This article analyzes professional discourse on masturbation to illustrate how child sexuality serves as a site for symbolic ideological struggles. Sex instruction manuals written in central Europe in the nineteenth century Palestine and Israel in the twentieth century are the basis for broader discussions on religious and scientific discourse on child and adolescent sexuality within the Jewish communities. By tracing the development of new forms…
Appearances Can Be Deceptive: Gender in the Israeli Welfare State
Journal Article Appearances Can Be Deceptive: Gender in the Israeli Welfare State Get access MIMI AJZENSTADT, MIMI AJZENSTADT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JOHN GAL JOHN GAL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 8, Issue 3, Fall 2001, Pages 292–324, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/8.3.292 Published: 01…
Never Mind the Law: Legal Discourse and Rape Reform in Israel
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…
Moral Panic and Neo-Liberalism: The Case of Single Mothers on Welfare in Israel
Journal Article Moral Panic and Neo-Liberalism: The Case of Single Mothers on Welfare in Israel Get access Mimi Ajzenstadt Mimi Ajzenstadt * *Dr, Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 68–87, https://doi.…
Appearances Can Be Deceptive: Gender in the Israeli Welfare State
Journal Article Appearances Can Be Deceptive: Gender in the Israeli Welfare State Get access MIMI AJZENSTADT, MIMI AJZENSTADT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JOHN GAL JOHN GAL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 8, Issue 3, Fall 2001, Pages 292–324, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/8.3.292 Published: 01…
Privatisation and New Modes of State Intervention: The Long-Term Care Programme in Israel
This article analyses the formulation and implementation of a relatively new statutory programme of care services for dependent elderly people in Israel, which has as a basic characteristic the supply of services by non-state agencies. The analysis serves as a basis for an exploration of the effects of privatisation and the emergence of quasi-markets upon the functioning of the welfare state both as a benefits provider and as a major employer. In…
The Socio-Legal Construction of Otherness Under * a Neo-Liberal Regime: The Case of Foreign Workers in the Israeli Criminal Courts
This paper attempts to reveal the ways in which criminal courts in Israel constructed foreign workers brought to trial as ‘others’. Individual foreign workers were framed as being irrelevant as bearers of rights while, in a parallel process, foreign workers as a group were constructed as symbolically relevant to discussions regarding the state governance of social risk. The study spans the years 1994–2011, when Israel adopted a new neo-liberal re…
The relative autonomy of women offenders' decision making
The article analyses the accounts of incarcerated females in Israel, examining the extent to which they were active, rational agents making choices regarding their criminality. The theoretical framework underlying this analysis views the criminal decision-making process with the agency/structure nexus. It indicates that the women were actively seeking normative means to satisfy their feelings of belonging, to gain economic benefits and feel safe,…
Crime, Social Control, and the Process of Social Classification: Juvenile Delinquency/ Justice Discourse in Israel, 1948-1970
Journal Article Crime, Social Control, and the Process of Social Classification: Juvenile Delinquency/Justice Discourse in Israel, 1948-1970 Get access Mimi Ajzenstadt Mimi Ajzenstadt Hebrew University of Jerusalem Direct correspondence to: Dr. Mimi Ajzenstadt, The Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel 91905. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Beyond control: The criminalization of African asylum seekers in Israel
This article analyzes the discursive process of criminalization of African asylum seekers in Israel. The Israeli case illuminates the way that marginalized social groups are constructed as a criminal threat, thus becoming a focal point of moral panic. Using content analysis, in-depth interviews and observations, we assert that the criminalization of asylum seekers is facilitated by their portrayal as ‘infiltrators’ who are beyond state control. S…
The Long Path from a Soup Kitchen to a Welfare State in Israel
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Cultural Context of Juvenile Justice Policy in Israel
The paper explores the evolution of rehabilitative, rights and economic discourses, and their effect on the development of juvenile justice policies in Israel during the last two decades. Israel has adopted the main features of a neo-liberal regime and severe cuts were made to major social welfare programmes, including those dealing with juvenile offenders. However, the neo-liberal ideas of individualisation and responsibilisation did not penetra…
Women, Welfare and Civil Society Organizations: Creating an Alternative Women's Welfare Sphere in Israel
This article examines the phenomenon of Israeli civil society organizations (CSOs) providing services to women as part of the creation of an alternative women's welfare sphere in Israel in recent years, and its influence upon the welfare state and women. The creation and the existence of the women's civil society sphere can be seen as part of a move by the Israeli welfare state towards a liberal-style economic regime. The article examines the ser…
Stigma and Otherness in the Israeli Media's Mirror Representations of Illness
In this study we examined the social construction of stigma toward HIV/AIDS in the Israeli press by comparing newspaper articles on HIV/AIDS, a highly stigmatized illness, and heart disease, a nonstigmatized illness in Israel. We carried out thematic content analysis of 242 newspaper articles published over a 12-month period. Two counter themes emerged from the analysis. HIV/AIDS was portrayed as a "foreign illness" mainly afflicting immigrants f…
Never Mind the Law: Legal Discourse and Rape Reform in Israel
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…
Politicisation processes in everyday practice with refugees: The experiences of Israeli and German social workers
This article deals with the political context of social work practice with refugees. Specifically, it addresses the ways politics and policies that derive from them, interplay with social workers’ perceptions and constructions regarding their daily practice. It is based on findings from a qualitative study that included 22 in-depth interviews with Israeli and German social workers who work with refugees. Working in a ‘highly political’ field mean…
Terrorism and risk management: The Israeli case
Throughout the past few decades, Israel has developed a set of legal, criminal justice and other law enforcement initiatives under the broad category of 'counter-terrorism policy'. This policy attempts both to separate and manage more effectively a group of suspected and accused terrorists. This article utilizes the New Penology perspective to trace the ways in which notions of risk and dangerousness are embedded in the counter-terrorism discours…
The Sexual Body of the Young Jew as an Arena of Ideological Struggle, 1821-1948
This article analyzes professional discourse on masturbation to illustrate how child sexuality serves as a site for symbolic ideological struggles. Sex instruction manuals written in central Europe in the nineteenth century Palestine and Israel in the twentieth century are the basis for broader discussions on religious and scientific discourse on child and adolescent sexuality within the Jewish communities. By tracing the development of new forms…
Grounding responsibilization: Women in the care professions in contracted social services nonprofits
Activist Mothers in Need of Public Housing and the Welfare Services: Negotiating Othering, Mothering and Resistance
Recent decades have witnessed an increasing trend towards the development of critical approaches to the study of poverty, which call upon social workers to perceive people living in poverty as active agents who resist their condition. Relatively few studies, however, have examined how women living in poverty, who embody collective-political agency, experience the encounter with the welfare services, and how their manner of organisation is shaped …
Risk factors for involvement in delinquency among immigrants and native-born Israeli girls
Pathological Women Gamblers: Gender-Related Aspects of Control
Stories About Child Sexual Abuse: Textual Analysis of Instruction Manuals in Israel
This paper overviews the socio-historical background underlying the construction of child abuse as a public issue in Israel, and analyzes one cultural product of this process-textbooks and manuals on child sexual abuse prevention. Analysis of the Israeli narratives reveals that they mimic American counterparts and address an ideal Jewish middle-class, ignoring other societal sectors. The narratives individualize and medicalize both victim and abu…
A qualitative study of women care professionals' experiences in social service non-profit organizations in Israel
Although women play a significant role in non-profit organizations as employees, volunteers, and clients, there is insufficient knowledge about these women and their unique work experiences in the current era, which is characterized by outsourcing of social services. This study explored work experiences among women in professional care settings of social service non-profit organizations (SSNPOs). Forty in-depth interviews were conducted with wome…
Arab Youth Involvement in Delinquent Behaviors: Exploring Hirschi’s Social Bond Theory from a Qualitative Perspective
The current study is based on Travis Hirschi’s social bond theory, arguing that the debut of delinquent behavior is a result of the weakening of the ties that bind people to society. According to Hirschi’s social bond theory, all youth have the potential to commit delinquent behaviors, but they are kept under control by their relationships with friends, parents, neighbors, teachers, and employers. These factors could serve as protective factors f…
Reactions to Juvenile Delinquency in Israel, 1950–1970: A Social Narrative
This article follows the ways through which the concept of juvenile delinquency has been created in the legal and social discourse in Israel. It compares the discourse and resulting social policies regarding juvenile delinquency mainly in two social groups: “middle-class” offenders (youth from high socioeconomic families who immigrated to Israel before 1948); and “lower class” offenders (Middle Eastern “Oriental” youth from low socioeconomic fami…
Medicalization and regulation of alcohol and alcoholism: The professions and disciplinary measures
Medicalization and regulation of alcohol and alcoholism: The professions and disciplinary measures
Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self
The Changing Image of the State: The Case of Alcohol Regulation in British Columbia, 1871-1925
Mimi Ajzenstadt, The Changing Image of the State: The Case of Alcohol Regulation in British Columbia, 1871-1925, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 441-460
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: Israeli Newspaper Reports of Crimes Committed by Women
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…
Privatisation and New Modes of State Intervention: The Long-Term Care Programme in Israel
This article analyses the formulation and implementation of a relatively new statutory programme of care services for dependent elderly people in Israel, which has as a basic characteristic the supply of services by non-state agencies. The analysis serves as a basis for an exploration of the effects of privatisation and the emergence of quasi-markets upon the functioning of the welfare state both as a benefits provider and as a major employer. In…
Appearances Can Be Deceptive: Gender in the Israeli Welfare State
Journal Article Appearances Can Be Deceptive: Gender in the Israeli Welfare State Get access MIMI AJZENSTADT, MIMI AJZENSTADT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JOHN GAL JOHN GAL Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 8, Issue 3, Fall 2001, Pages 292–324, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/8.3.292 Published: 01…
Never Mind the Law: Legal Discourse and Rape Reform in Israel
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…
Crime, Social Control, and the Process of Social Classification: Juvenile Delinquency/ Justice Discourse in Israel, 1948-1970
Journal Article Crime, Social Control, and the Process of Social Classification: Juvenile Delinquency/Justice Discourse in Israel, 1948-1970 Get access Mimi Ajzenstadt Mimi Ajzenstadt Hebrew University of Jerusalem Direct correspondence to: Dr. Mimi Ajzenstadt, The Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel 91905. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
The Sexual Body of the Young Jew as an Arena of Ideological Struggle, 1821-1948
This article analyzes professional discourse on masturbation to illustrate how child sexuality serves as a site for symbolic ideological struggles. Sex instruction manuals written in central Europe in the nineteenth century Palestine and Israel in the twentieth century are the basis for broader discussions on religious and scientific discourse on child and adolescent sexuality within the Jewish communities. By tracing the development of new forms…
Reactions to Juvenile Delinquency in Israel, 1950–1970: A Social Narrative
This article follows the ways through which the concept of juvenile delinquency has been created in the legal and social discourse in Israel. It compares the discourse and resulting social policies regarding juvenile delinquency mainly in two social groups: “middle-class” offenders (youth from high socioeconomic families who immigrated to Israel before 1948); and “lower class” offenders (Middle Eastern “Oriental” youth from low socioeconomic fami…
Stories About Child Sexual Abuse: Textual Analysis of Instruction Manuals in Israel
This paper overviews the socio-historical background underlying the construction of child abuse as a public issue in Israel, and analyzes one cultural product of this process-textbooks and manuals on child sexual abuse prevention. Analysis of the Israeli narratives reveals that they mimic American counterparts and address an ideal Jewish middle-class, ignoring other societal sectors. The narratives individualize and medicalize both victim and abu…
Terrorism and risk management: The Israeli case
Throughout the past few decades, Israel has developed a set of legal, criminal justice and other law enforcement initiatives under the broad category of 'counter-terrorism policy'. This policy attempts both to separate and manage more effectively a group of suspected and accused terrorists. This article utilizes the New Penology perspective to trace the ways in which notions of risk and dangerousness are embedded in the counter-terrorism discours…
The relative autonomy of women offenders' decision making
The article analyses the accounts of incarcerated females in Israel, examining the extent to which they were active, rational agents making choices regarding their criminality. The theoretical framework underlying this analysis views the criminal decision-making process with the agency/structure nexus. It indicates that the women were actively seeking normative means to satisfy their feelings of belonging, to gain economic benefits and feel safe,…
Moral Panic and Neo-Liberalism: The Case of Single Mothers on Welfare in Israel
Journal Article Moral Panic and Neo-Liberalism: The Case of Single Mothers on Welfare in Israel Get access Mimi Ajzenstadt Mimi Ajzenstadt * *Dr, Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel; [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 68–87, https://doi.…
Children, Gender and Families in Mediterranean Welfare States
Women, Welfare and Civil Society Organizations: Creating an Alternative Women's Welfare Sphere in Israel
This article examines the phenomenon of Israeli civil society organizations (CSOs) providing services to women as part of the creation of an alternative women's welfare sphere in Israel in recent years, and its influence upon the welfare state and women. The creation and the existence of the women's civil society sphere can be seen as part of a move by the Israeli welfare state towards a liberal-style economic regime. The article examines the ser…
Stigma and Otherness in the Israeli Media's Mirror Representations of Illness
In this study we examined the social construction of stigma toward HIV/AIDS in the Israeli press by comparing newspaper articles on HIV/AIDS, a highly stigmatized illness, and heart disease, a nonstigmatized illness in Israel. We carried out thematic content analysis of 242 newspaper articles published over a 12-month period. Two counter themes emerged from the analysis. HIV/AIDS was portrayed as a "foreign illness" mainly afflicting immigrants f…
Pathological Women Gamblers: Gender-Related Aspects of Control
Risk factors for involvement in delinquency among immigrants and native-born Israeli girls
The Socio-Legal Construction of Otherness Under * a Neo-Liberal Regime: The Case of Foreign Workers in the Israeli Criminal Courts
This paper attempts to reveal the ways in which criminal courts in Israel constructed foreign workers brought to trial as ‘others’. Individual foreign workers were framed as being irrelevant as bearers of rights while, in a parallel process, foreign workers as a group were constructed as symbolically relevant to discussions regarding the state governance of social risk. The study spans the years 1994–2011, when Israel adopted a new neo-liberal re…
The Long Path from a Soup Kitchen to a Welfare State in Israel
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Cultural Context of Juvenile Justice Policy in Israel
The paper explores the evolution of rehabilitative, rights and economic discourses, and their effect on the development of juvenile justice policies in Israel during the last two decades. Israel has adopted the main features of a neo-liberal regime and severe cuts were made to major social welfare programmes, including those dealing with juvenile offenders. However, the neo-liberal ideas of individualisation and responsibilisation did not penetra…
Normative identity construction among women diagnosed with a gambling disorder
Women with a gambling problem bear a negative social stigma. Based on the theory of symbolic interactionism, this study examined the construction of social identities by 17 Israeli women diagnosed with a gambling disorder. Interpretive interactionist analysis revealed how they construct their identity through correspondence with patterns of behavior that are perceived as normative, and identified 3 major themes: "I'm not actually a gambler" (the …
Politicisation processes in everyday practice with refugees: The experiences of Israeli and German social workers
This article deals with the political context of social work practice with refugees. Specifically, it addresses the ways politics and policies that derive from them, interplay with social workers’ perceptions and constructions regarding their daily practice. It is based on findings from a qualitative study that included 22 in-depth interviews with Israeli and German social workers who work with refugees. Working in a ‘highly political’ field mean…
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