Tali Gal
Biographic Data
| ID | 842496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tali Gal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tali |
| FAMILY NAME | Gal |
| SIGNATURE | GAL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6621-4672 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Educating for forgiveness and agape love across three nations: A phenomenological study of fifth graders’ experiences
This study examined the experiences of 57 fifth graders (54% Male; M = 11.10 years, SD = 0.45) from three nations, including Israel (33%), Northern Ireland (25%), and Taiwan (42%), following a 12-week in-school forgiveness and agape love education program. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with students who had attained the highest positive change scores in either forgiveness or agape love. A descriptive phenomenological approach with the…
Beyond the Adversarial Rivalry: A Developmental Rights‐Based Model for Minor‐on‐Minor Crime, Part 1
When children harm children, the conventional victim–perpetrator framework is ill‐equipped to address the developmental, relational, and institutional complexities involved. While juvenile justice scholarship increasingly emphasizes rehabilitation, and victims' rights literature has advanced child‐sensitive protection, minor‐on‐minor offending remains underexplored across legal and social science disciplines. This Review Article draws on legal an…
Beyond the Adversarial Rivalry: A Developmental Rights‐Based Model for Minor‐on‐Minor Crime, Part 2
When children harm children, the conventional victim–perpetrator framework is ill‐equipped to address the developmental, relational, and institutional complexities involved. While juvenile justice scholarship increasingly emphasizes rehabilitation, and victims' rights literature has advanced child‐sensitive protections, minor‐on‐minor offending remains underexplored across legal and social science disciplines. Part 1 of this two‐parts project dev…
The Effect of Community Courts on Recidivism: A Quasi-Experimental Study
The study examines the effectiveness of community courts in reducing recidivism, aiming to address methodological limitations of previous research. Using a quasi-experimental design with propensity score matching, the research compared 686 program participants (393 completers and 293 noncompleters) referred to community courts with a matched group of 1,797 individuals adjudicated in mainstream magistrate courts for similar offenses. Recidivism wa…
Peacekeepers: An implementation manual for empowering youth using restorative practices, by Jen Williams
It’s my story and no one cares about me: Subjective Experiences of Youth Sexual Assault Victims in the Criminal Justice Process
Co-Researching With Palestinian Children and Youth: Rights-Based Knowledge Creation During Wartime
This study elucidates a rights-based participatory methodology of a qualitative research that explored the experiences with sociopolitical stress and coping strategies among Palestinian children and youth. The first author recruited and facilitated a Children and Youth Advisory Group (CYAG) of seven Palestinian adolescents (aged 13-19) from East Jerusalem, most of whom were enrolled in secondary education and demonstrated high levels of education…
Forgiveness Education in Conflicted Societies: The Lived Experiences of Arab and Jewish Fifth-Grade Children in Israel
This research examines the subjective experiences of 10–11-year-old students participating in a social-emotional Education Program on Forgiveness and Agape Love (EPFAL) in Israel. The EPFAL is designed to help students acquire a social-emotional tool to help them deal with the wrongs, vulnerabilities, and injustices they will likely experience later in life. The EPFAL took place as part of a larger international research project evaluating the pr…
When a Boy Hurts a Girl in Cyberspace: Facilitators’ Views on Potential Benefits and Challenges in Restorative Justice
Recent years have seen a significant increase in cyber sexual offenses (CSO) conducted through the creation and distribution of intimate images and videos of others without their knowledge or consent, oftentimes among minors. Restorative justice (RJ) offers a platform to conduct an open, direct, and safe dialogue between responsible persons (RP) and survivors. This explorative study aimed to identify the central characteristics of RJ processes co…
Survivors’ Paths Toward Forgiveness in Restorative Justice Following Sexual Violence
Sexual violence (SV) yields complex justice and therapeutic needs among its survivors. Restorative justice (RJ), conducted in addition to or instead of the criminal justice process following SV, provides a platform to address these needs and repair the harm. This study describes the dynamics of RJ processes following SV, leading to the emergence of dialogic forgiveness. Dialogic forgiveness refers to a reduction in negative thoughts, feelings, an…
Many Shades of Success: Bottom-up Indicators of Individual Success in Community Courts
This study challenges the conventional approach to the appropriate indicators of individual success in community courts (CCs) by exploring the different meanings that CC professionals ascribe to the term “success.” CCs conduct a non-adversarial process in which team members collaborate to provide a comprehensive rehabilitative intervention for recidivist participants. We conducted fifty-three in-depth interviews with CC personnel between 2016 and…
Two Roads Converge: The Interchange Between the Mental Health and Legal Discourses in Sexual Assault Trials
Disciplinary differences between mental health and legal discourses limit the implementation of mental health knowledge (MHK) in legal proceedings. This study examined the interchange between these discourses, focusing on sexual assault cases that required testimonies of mental health expert witnesses (MHEWs) in Israel. 42 multi-perspective interviews including 16 MHEWs and 26 legal practitioners were analyzed using critical discourse analysis. P…
Setting Standards for Child‐Inclusive Restorative Justice
Childhood victimization occurs everywhere: in homes, kindergartens and schools, in state‐care institutions, neighborhoods, workplaces, and online. The most vulnerable children are least likely to disclose their victimization and see their cases prosecuted. Restorative justice (RJ) offers an alternative way for addressing criminality. It promotes accountability and reparation, without the debilitating effects of incarceration. RJ places victims at…
Challenges in Implementing Restorative Justice with Older Adults: Institutional Gatekeepers and Social Barriers
Despite the consensus regarding the importance of restorative justice (RJ) as an alternative to the criminal justice system, some professionals and researchers have pointed out the challenges involved in its implementation with older adults who have been victimised. The aim of the present study was to explore the primary obstructions to implementing RJ intervention with older adults who have been victimised, as perceived by RJ facilitators, using…
Restorative justice myopia
The restorative justice movement, now well in its forties, is generally in great shape: active, vibrant and productive. It includes a strong academic community (with a central role played by this journal, TIJRJ), a robust body of empirical knowledge about its effectiveness and an ever-growing practice around the globe. Still, it has been suffering from myopia: a difficulty to see distant objects or issues clearly. Being short-sighted in relation …
Understanding and implementing child participation: Lessons from the Global South
I Am Starting to Believe in the Word 'Justice: Lessons from an Ethnographic Study on Community Courts
With the growing awareness of the crisis of mass incarceration and distrust toward the legal system, recent years have seen a rise in interest in specialized, problem-solving, and therapeutic courts designed to reduce incarceration and recidivism rates and enhance public trust in state authorities. Community courts have been operating in numerous jurisdictions worldwide, providing a non-adversarial platform in which repeat low-level offenders are…
An ecological model of child and youth participation
International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation: From Social Exclusion to Child-Inclusive Policies
The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired advocates and policy makers across the globe, injecting children’s rights terminology into various public and private arenas. Children’s right to participate in decision-making processes affecting their lives is the acme of the Convention and its central contribution to the children’s rights discourse. At the same time the participation right presents enormous challenges in its implem…
Child Victims and Restorative Justice: A Needs-Rights Model
Children are at increased risk of becoming a victim of crime. Too frequently, children become victims of theft, burglary, violence, sexual assault, abuse, bullying and domestic violence. Yet current criminal justice systems are not designed to assist them in their struggle to overcome their victimization. Restorative justice, an alternative approach to justice which brings victims and offenders together to find their own ways to restore the harm,…
Juvenile Victims in Restorative Justice: Findings from the Reintegrative Shaming Experiments
Using a randomized experimental design the Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE) showed that restorative justice (RJ) is significantly more satisfying than court for both victims and offenders. It did not, however, explore the effect of victims’ age and baseline differences in the level of harm caused to victims of different crimes on outcome variables. The current study uses a two-factor ANCOVA to address these questions. Main findings sugges…
Forming Partnerships: The Human Rights of Children in Need of Care and Protection
The care and protection of children experiencing or considered to be at risk of abuse or neglect within their families is a major policy dilemma. Children in the care and protection system do not fare well on a range of indictors, when compared to the overall population. In recent years there have been significant changes in policies and support for children in out of home care, including the adoption of the language of rights. Nevertheless, the …
An ecological model of child and youth participation
Forming Partnerships: The Human Rights of Children in Need of Care and Protection
The care and protection of children experiencing or considered to be at risk of abuse or neglect within their families is a major policy dilemma. Children in the care and protection system do not fare well on a range of indictors, when compared to the overall population. In recent years there have been significant changes in policies and support for children in out of home care, including the adoption of the language of rights. Nevertheless, the …
Understanding and implementing child participation: Lessons from the Global South
Co-Researching With Palestinian Children and Youth: Rights-Based Knowledge Creation During Wartime
This study elucidates a rights-based participatory methodology of a qualitative research that explored the experiences with sociopolitical stress and coping strategies among Palestinian children and youth. The first author recruited and facilitated a Children and Youth Advisory Group (CYAG) of seven Palestinian adolescents (aged 13-19) from East Jerusalem, most of whom were enrolled in secondary education and demonstrated high levels of education…
I Am Starting to Believe in the Word 'Justice: Lessons from an Ethnographic Study on Community Courts
With the growing awareness of the crisis of mass incarceration and distrust toward the legal system, recent years have seen a rise in interest in specialized, problem-solving, and therapeutic courts designed to reduce incarceration and recidivism rates and enhance public trust in state authorities. Community courts have been operating in numerous jurisdictions worldwide, providing a non-adversarial platform in which repeat low-level offenders are…
Forming Partnerships: The Human Rights of Children in Need of Care and Protection
The care and protection of children experiencing or considered to be at risk of abuse or neglect within their families is a major policy dilemma. Children in the care and protection system do not fare well on a range of indictors, when compared to the overall population. In recent years there have been significant changes in policies and support for children in out of home care, including the adoption of the language of rights. Nevertheless, the …
Child Victims and Restorative Justice: A Needs-Rights Model
Children are at increased risk of becoming a victim of crime. Too frequently, children become victims of theft, burglary, violence, sexual assault, abuse, bullying and domestic violence. Yet current criminal justice systems are not designed to assist them in their struggle to overcome their victimization. Restorative justice, an alternative approach to justice which brings victims and offenders together to find their own ways to restore the harm,…
Juvenile Victims in Restorative Justice: Findings from the Reintegrative Shaming Experiments
Using a randomized experimental design the Reintegrative Shaming Experiments (RISE) showed that restorative justice (RJ) is significantly more satisfying than court for both victims and offenders. It did not, however, explore the effect of victims’ age and baseline differences in the level of harm caused to victims of different crimes on outcome variables. The current study uses a two-factor ANCOVA to address these questions. Main findings sugges…
International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation: From Social Exclusion to Child-Inclusive Policies
The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has inspired advocates and policy makers across the globe, injecting children’s rights terminology into various public and private arenas. Children’s right to participate in decision-making processes affecting their lives is the acme of the Convention and its central contribution to the children’s rights discourse. At the same time the participation right presents enormous challenges in its implem…
An ecological model of child and youth participation
Restorative justice myopia
The restorative justice movement, now well in its forties, is generally in great shape: active, vibrant and productive. It includes a strong academic community (with a central role played by this journal, TIJRJ), a robust body of empirical knowledge about its effectiveness and an ever-growing practice around the globe. Still, it has been suffering from myopia: a difficulty to see distant objects or issues clearly. Being short-sighted in relation …
Understanding and implementing child participation: Lessons from the Global South
I Am Starting to Believe in the Word 'Justice: Lessons from an Ethnographic Study on Community Courts
With the growing awareness of the crisis of mass incarceration and distrust toward the legal system, recent years have seen a rise in interest in specialized, problem-solving, and therapeutic courts designed to reduce incarceration and recidivism rates and enhance public trust in state authorities. Community courts have been operating in numerous jurisdictions worldwide, providing a non-adversarial platform in which repeat low-level offenders are…
Setting Standards for Child‐Inclusive Restorative Justice
Childhood victimization occurs everywhere: in homes, kindergartens and schools, in state‐care institutions, neighborhoods, workplaces, and online. The most vulnerable children are least likely to disclose their victimization and see their cases prosecuted. Restorative justice (RJ) offers an alternative way for addressing criminality. It promotes accountability and reparation, without the debilitating effects of incarceration. RJ places victims at…
Challenges in Implementing Restorative Justice with Older Adults: Institutional Gatekeepers and Social Barriers
Despite the consensus regarding the importance of restorative justice (RJ) as an alternative to the criminal justice system, some professionals and researchers have pointed out the challenges involved in its implementation with older adults who have been victimised. The aim of the present study was to explore the primary obstructions to implementing RJ intervention with older adults who have been victimised, as perceived by RJ facilitators, using…
Two Roads Converge: The Interchange Between the Mental Health and Legal Discourses in Sexual Assault Trials
Disciplinary differences between mental health and legal discourses limit the implementation of mental health knowledge (MHK) in legal proceedings. This study examined the interchange between these discourses, focusing on sexual assault cases that required testimonies of mental health expert witnesses (MHEWs) in Israel. 42 multi-perspective interviews including 16 MHEWs and 26 legal practitioners were analyzed using critical discourse analysis. P…
Survivors’ Paths Toward Forgiveness in Restorative Justice Following Sexual Violence
Sexual violence (SV) yields complex justice and therapeutic needs among its survivors. Restorative justice (RJ), conducted in addition to or instead of the criminal justice process following SV, provides a platform to address these needs and repair the harm. This study describes the dynamics of RJ processes following SV, leading to the emergence of dialogic forgiveness. Dialogic forgiveness refers to a reduction in negative thoughts, feelings, an…
Many Shades of Success: Bottom-up Indicators of Individual Success in Community Courts
This study challenges the conventional approach to the appropriate indicators of individual success in community courts (CCs) by exploring the different meanings that CC professionals ascribe to the term “success.” CCs conduct a non-adversarial process in which team members collaborate to provide a comprehensive rehabilitative intervention for recidivist participants. We conducted fifty-three in-depth interviews with CC personnel between 2016 and…
Forgiveness Education in Conflicted Societies: The Lived Experiences of Arab and Jewish Fifth-Grade Children in Israel
This research examines the subjective experiences of 10–11-year-old students participating in a social-emotional Education Program on Forgiveness and Agape Love (EPFAL) in Israel. The EPFAL is designed to help students acquire a social-emotional tool to help them deal with the wrongs, vulnerabilities, and injustices they will likely experience later in life. The EPFAL took place as part of a larger international research project evaluating the pr…
When a Boy Hurts a Girl in Cyberspace: Facilitators’ Views on Potential Benefits and Challenges in Restorative Justice
Recent years have seen a significant increase in cyber sexual offenses (CSO) conducted through the creation and distribution of intimate images and videos of others without their knowledge or consent, oftentimes among minors. Restorative justice (RJ) offers a platform to conduct an open, direct, and safe dialogue between responsible persons (RP) and survivors. This explorative study aimed to identify the central characteristics of RJ processes co…
Peacekeepers: An implementation manual for empowering youth using restorative practices, by Jen Williams
It’s my story and no one cares about me: Subjective Experiences of Youth Sexual Assault Victims in the Criminal Justice Process
Co-Researching With Palestinian Children and Youth: Rights-Based Knowledge Creation During Wartime
This study elucidates a rights-based participatory methodology of a qualitative research that explored the experiences with sociopolitical stress and coping strategies among Palestinian children and youth. The first author recruited and facilitated a Children and Youth Advisory Group (CYAG) of seven Palestinian adolescents (aged 13-19) from East Jerusalem, most of whom were enrolled in secondary education and demonstrated high levels of education…
Educating for forgiveness and agape love across three nations: A phenomenological study of fifth graders’ experiences
This study examined the experiences of 57 fifth graders (54% Male; M = 11.10 years, SD = 0.45) from three nations, including Israel (33%), Northern Ireland (25%), and Taiwan (42%), following a 12-week in-school forgiveness and agape love education program. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with students who had attained the highest positive change scores in either forgiveness or agape love. A descriptive phenomenological approach with the…
Beyond the Adversarial Rivalry: A Developmental Rights‐Based Model for Minor‐on‐Minor Crime, Part 1
When children harm children, the conventional victim–perpetrator framework is ill‐equipped to address the developmental, relational, and institutional complexities involved. While juvenile justice scholarship increasingly emphasizes rehabilitation, and victims' rights literature has advanced child‐sensitive protection, minor‐on‐minor offending remains underexplored across legal and social science disciplines. This Review Article draws on legal an…
Beyond the Adversarial Rivalry: A Developmental Rights‐Based Model for Minor‐on‐Minor Crime, Part 2
When children harm children, the conventional victim–perpetrator framework is ill‐equipped to address the developmental, relational, and institutional complexities involved. While juvenile justice scholarship increasingly emphasizes rehabilitation, and victims' rights literature has advanced child‐sensitive protections, minor‐on‐minor offending remains underexplored across legal and social science disciplines. Part 1 of this two‐parts project dev…
The Effect of Community Courts on Recidivism: A Quasi-Experimental Study
The study examines the effectiveness of community courts in reducing recidivism, aiming to address methodological limitations of previous research. Using a quasi-experimental design with propensity score matching, the research compared 686 program participants (393 completers and 293 noncompleters) referred to community courts with a matched group of 1,797 individuals adjudicated in mainstream magistrate courts for similar offenses. Recidivism wa…
Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (12 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Economic Justice (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Restorative justice (8 works) · Poison control (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)