Netanel Dagan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4076556 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Netanel Dagan |
| PRENOMES | Netanel |
| SOBRENOME | Dagan |
| ASSINATURA | DAGAN N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5610-8801 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Fluid, permutable, and generative
Extending parole scholarship to compare parole punitivity, this paper contrasts two understudied lifers’ parole systems: India and Israel. A qualitative comparative analysis of parole decision-making in both contexts reveals that despite distinct structuring of parole fields, both systems manifest punitivity, reflected in low release rates. Contrasting the construction of (a) punitive consideration (formal versus informal), (b) victims (individua…
Understanding the pains experienced by evacuees during war
By integrating social work and criminology, the current study examines the pains experienced by evacuees from northern and southern Israel who have been displaced from their homes and are residing in hotels during the October 7th Israel-Hamas war. Drawing on thematic content analysis of 20 semi-structured in-depth interviews with evacuees from six hotels in Israel, the study builds on and extends the criminological concept of “the pains of impris…
Personalizing criminal justice
Clemency is a popular yet controversial mechanism in many modern democracies, often described as standing in tension with the rule of law. Drawing on phenomenological literature, we conceptualize clemency as a mechanism that gives humanity back to the law's impersonal machinery. Building on a qualitative analysis of 75 presidential clemency cases in Israel consisting of the president's handwritten annotations, we suggest that the president's deci…
Voices from the margins
Utilizing data from over 11,000 posts and 127,000 responses on Reddit groups over a 10-year period, we employed AI-powered content analysis to examine patterns in the discussions of Reddit users who post about prison and who the model classifies as before/after incarceration across various topics. Our findings revealed significant shifts regarding personal issues. These included issues relative to users’ mental health, substance use, spirituality…
Vernacularising dignity
Connecting penology and theology, this paper aims to explore how universal prisoners’ legal rights are vernacularised and localised within a specific cultural context. Building on qualitative interviews from Israeli prison officers, we argue that despite being subject to a modern prisoners’ rights paradigm, prison officers vernacularise prisoners’ dignity and humanity through the theological lens of the ‘Image of God’ discourse (in a direct or hy…
Mimetic violence and wartime organ donation between Israeli Jews and Palestinians
This paper develops a theoretical framework for understanding how wartime organ donation can both interrupt and reinforce cycles of mimetic violence. Drawing on René Girard's mimetic theory, we analyze ethnographic and interview-based material collected between August 2021 and October 2022 from three cases of cross-community organ donation between Israeli Jews and Palestinians during armed conflict, examining how donor families and recipients fra…
Sentencing as a human process? Human judges’ experiences of machine-based sentencing
Machine decision-making technologies, such as artificial intelligence, are increasingly gaining prominence in sentencing. While criminologists have expressed concerns about these technologies, the ways in which sentencing judges perceive such developments remain underexplored. Drawing on interviews with 24 Israeli district court judges, this study identifies two dominant themes shaping judicial attitudes toward machine-based sentencing (MBS). The…
Revisiting Justice
Expanding the boundaries of the 'moral turn' in criminology to the realm of punishment administration, this Element proposes reconceptualizing parole through a moral lens. Drawing from a mixed-method study of parole hearings for homicide cases in Israel, the author argues that during parole hearings, parole actors (Attorney General representatives, secondary victims, parole applicants, and parole board members) conduct complex forms of moral labo…
Life-sentenced prisoners, crime victims, and the multidialog of parole
This study examined the dynamics of communication between prisoners sentenced for life (lifers), their victims, and parole boards. Against the backdrop of penal dialogue imagined by penal theorists, we analyzed the narratives of lifers and of their victims during parole hearings in Israel, to explore the construction of a multi-dialogue between prisoners, victims, and parole boards. Our findings reveal that both lifers and victims predominantly f…
The remorseful enemy
Soliciting a defendant's remorse during sentencing resonates with the idea that the individual has breached the community's shared moral values but can be reincluded through moral transformation. This article examines a criminal justice system in which remorse is sought from defendants convicted of security offenses, belonging to a community deemed to hold values opposed to those of the state that punishes them. A qualitative analysis of sentenci…
Imagining Freedom
Bridging criminological and philosophical discourses, this article builds upon Berlin's ‘concepts of liberty’ to theorise the meaning of parole release. Through qualitatively analysing 130 Israeli lifers’ Parole Board hearings, we found that lifers focused more heavily on their loss of – and potential to regain – positive liberty than on negative liberty. Here, we detail how lifers progressed beyond reflecting upon their past and their current st…
Terminal Liminality, Life Imprisonment and the Paroled Body
Based on an in-depth analysis of parole board hearings in Israel concerning life sentence prisoners who are old or severely ill, we argue that, rather than opening a window onto new beginnings, parole hearings place applicants in a state of terminal liminality that marks a transition from life into death. We uncover how terminal liminality entails constructing a broken paroled body before the parole board, where matters of life and death are perf…
Lifting the Veil of Ignorance
Criminologists have criticized the gap between retributive theory and prison realities. In this study, we drew on qualitative findings from the Supreme Court judges of Israel to explore how judicial decision-makers construct the relationship between their retributive theory and their vision of prison life. We found that these judges perceived prison to be a disproportionate and cruel punishment. In responding to prison excessiveness, these judges…
Entrapped in a penal time capsule’
Scholars argue that lifers’ parole can be mobilised to be punitive and politicised. However, how parole decision-makers construct and disguise their punitive and politicised discourses when deciding the paroled subject is understudied, especially with regard to the global south. In this paper, based on content analysis of the dossiers of Delhi's Sentence Review Board (SRB) during 2018–2021, and in-depth interviews with the SRB members, we found t…
Towards a Retributive Concept of Re-entry
Retributive justice is the preferred penal theory in many countries, especially for serious offences, and is a predominant justification for imprisonment. Retributivists, however, have little to say regarding the state’s role towards returning citizens after release from prison. In reality, paroled individuals struggle with continuing surveillance, poverty, stigma and other significant barriers to housing, employment and health. Thus, rates of re…
Managing the Risk of Living
Drawing on Israeli life-sentence parole hearings, we argue that release decisions are centred on the body, not the soul. The board employs a ‘medical gaze’ that dissects the paroled body by magnifying the applicant’s dying body and narrowing the gaze to evaluate the days left to live. A new risk emerges: the risk of living upon release rather than dying. The board is ambivalent when managing this risk: the body is treated with suspicion, the appl…
Parole as resentencing
Parole boards have traditionally assessed prisoners’ future risk and rehabilitation prospects in deciding on early release from prison. However, parole boards may do more. In some systems, they may deny parole applications for punitive reasons, thus acting as a resentencing authority. This study conducted a qualitative analysis of the punitive discourses of parole decision-making, with Israel as a comparative case study. Through interviews with 2…
Parole as a boxing match
Despite being depicted as powerful actors, the work of the State's representatives in parole hearings has to date remained largely invisible. In this study, we aimed to fill this gap through a qualitative analysis of the oral arguments of prosecutors in 130 lifers’ parole board hearings in Israel. The findings suggest that prosecutors construct lifers’ parole hearings as an adversarial, yet asymmetrical, “boxing match.” Three themes were unveiled…
Rehabilitation vs. risk
Parole decisions have a dramatic impact on individuals’ lives as well as public safety. Studies seeking to discern which factors predict parole decisions highlighted the role played by correctional reports submitted to parole boards by rehabilitation authorities; however, very few offered any in-depth insight into them. Moreover, research also failed to explore the interplay of reasoning employed by parole boards and rehabilitation authorities, w…
Punishment as text
Punishment is often performed through judicial texts. Narrative criminology scholarship, however, has paid little attention to how criminalised people engage with these texts when constructing their self-narratives. To fill this gap, based on qualitative findings from formerly incarcerated people in Israel, this paper aimed to theorise their engagement with their sentencing remarks (SR). We found that they experienced their SR as text that held c…
Taking Prison to Court
Scholars have criticized the gap between judicial work and the realities of prison life. In this article, drawn from qualitative findings from Supreme Court Judges in Israel, we analysed how such Judges negotiate their administrative judicial review over prison officials’ decisions. We found that through their judicial review, the Judges either bureaucratise, re-sentence the prisoner or reform prison life. Each theme imagines differently both the…
Biscuits, the World Cup and Nobel Prizes
Records kept by security authorities documenting potentially violent encounters are generally characterized by technocratic language and parsimonious content, which is intended to project an image of objective and impartial state officials. A qualitative analysis of 688 records covering interrogations of suspects in terror activities by the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) presents a very different picture. They consist of representations of (1…
Enemy parole
Pushing and expanding the boundaries of the ‘criminology of the other’ and ‘enemy penology’ to the post-sentencing phase, this study aims to analyse parole for terror-related prisoners. For doing so, the study thematically analysed 207 decisions of the Israeli parole board for individuals labelled as ‘security prisoners’. It found that for security prisoners, the parole board employs a distorted version of the more discretionary-individualised lo…
Negotiating penal hybridity
Drawn on qualitative findings from discretionary chairpersons of parole boards in Israel, the study aims to theorize parole decision making as time–space boundary-work. Parole decision-makers were found to act within a hybrid professional environment that requires them to process distinct, and possibly conflicting, penal values, competencies and orientations. In order to address their professional tensions, parole decision-makers constantly negot…
Deservingness on Trial
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 …
Punishment as text
Punishment is often performed through judicial texts. Narrative criminology scholarship, however, has paid little attention to how criminalised people engage with these texts when constructing their self-narratives. To fill this gap, based on qualitative findings from formerly incarcerated people in Israel, this paper aimed to theorise their engagement with their sentencing remarks (SR). We found that they experienced their SR as text that held c…
Taking Prison to Court
Scholars have criticized the gap between judicial work and the realities of prison life. In this article, drawn from qualitative findings from Supreme Court Judges in Israel, we analysed how such Judges negotiate their administrative judicial review over prison officials’ decisions. We found that through their judicial review, the Judges either bureaucratise, re-sentence the prisoner or reform prison life. Each theme imagines differently both the…
Enemy parole
Pushing and expanding the boundaries of the ‘criminology of the other’ and ‘enemy penology’ to the post-sentencing phase, this study aims to analyse parole for terror-related prisoners. For doing so, the study thematically analysed 207 decisions of the Israeli parole board for individuals labelled as ‘security prisoners’. It found that for security prisoners, the parole board employs a distorted version of the more discretionary-individualised lo…
Negotiating penal hybridity
Drawn on qualitative findings from discretionary chairpersons of parole boards in Israel, the study aims to theorize parole decision making as time–space boundary-work. Parole decision-makers were found to act within a hybrid professional environment that requires them to process distinct, and possibly conflicting, penal values, competencies and orientations. In order to address their professional tensions, parole decision-makers constantly negot…
Overcoming Penal Boundaries
The relations between sentencing and post-sentencing stages (e.g., the implementation of prison, parole or community-based sanctions) are often perceived through temporal, spatial and normative binaries. The static time of retributive calibration—as fully known at sentencing time—stands at the heart of this separation. Through qualitative findings drawn from parole-board chairpersons in Israel, the paper argues that retributive punishment may evo…
Managing the Risk of Living
Drawing on Israeli life-sentence parole hearings, we argue that release decisions are centred on the body, not the soul. The board employs a ‘medical gaze’ that dissects the paroled body by magnifying the applicant’s dying body and narrowing the gaze to evaluate the days left to live. A new risk emerges: the risk of living upon release rather than dying. The board is ambivalent when managing this risk: the body is treated with suspicion, the appl…
Rehabilitation vs. risk
Parole decisions have a dramatic impact on individuals’ lives as well as public safety. Studies seeking to discern which factors predict parole decisions highlighted the role played by correctional reports submitted to parole boards by rehabilitation authorities; however, very few offered any in-depth insight into them. Moreover, research also failed to explore the interplay of reasoning employed by parole boards and rehabilitation authorities, w…
Retributive Whisper
The aims of retributive or nonutilitarian sentencing are said to conflict with parole as part of a determinate sentencing framework. In this article, we claim that a nonutilitarian approach to punishment does not necessarily conflict with parole. In particular, by adopting core elements of Duff's framework of communicative sentencing, we argue that parole inherently holds a communicative meaning in the form of retributive whisper and can thus be …
Retributive Whisper
The aims of retributive or nonutilitarian sentencing are said to conflict with parole as part of a determinate sentencing framework. In this article, we claim that a nonutilitarian approach to punishment does not necessarily conflict with parole. In particular, by adopting core elements of Duff's framework of communicative sentencing, we argue that parole inherently holds a communicative meaning in the form of retributive whisper and can thus be …
The Janus face of imprisonment
This article considers how the Supreme Court of the United States and the European Court of Human Rights apply, interpret and frame abstract imprisonment purposes, and how they view their relevance to prison conditions, while discussing the constitutionality of prison conditions. The article argues that the Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights view, conceptualise and interpret the purposes of imprisonment differently. Regarding th…
From rehabilitation to penal communication
Retributivism is one of the most prevalent theories in contemporary penal theory. However, despite its popularity it is frequently argued that too little attention has been paid to the implications of retributivism for prison management and prison life, including prison visits and furlough. More so, it has been questioned both whether the various forms of retributivism found in the philosophical literature on criminal punishment have anything to …
Juridical Message in the Shadow of the Carceral
Juridical and carceral scholarship seldom interact. As a result, the visible and less visible intersections and gaps between the two penal logics and discourses are often overlooked. The paper argues for better understanding of juridical power, and how it may cut through the boundaries of juridical/carceral separation. As a case study, the paper problematises the disciplinary punishment of imposing ‘additional days’ of prison time (AD) for prison…
The role of Israeli judges in authorising solitary confinement placements
This paper explores the role of judges in authorising the extension of placements in solitary confinement in Israeli prisons for lengthy periods of time. It qualitatively examines, through content analysis of 354 Israeli court decisions, how judges negotiate and rationalise the harmful effects of solitary confinement when balanced against the prison authorities’ reasoning for subjecting prisoners to it. Finding an overall tendency to defer to the…
Enemy parole
Pushing and expanding the boundaries of the ‘criminology of the other’ and ‘enemy penology’ to the post-sentencing phase, this study aims to analyse parole for terror-related prisoners. For doing so, the study thematically analysed 207 decisions of the Israeli parole board for individuals labelled as ‘security prisoners’. It found that for security prisoners, the parole board employs a distorted version of the more discretionary-individualised lo…
Negotiating penal hybridity
Drawn on qualitative findings from discretionary chairpersons of parole boards in Israel, the study aims to theorize parole decision making as time–space boundary-work. Parole decision-makers were found to act within a hybrid professional environment that requires them to process distinct, and possibly conflicting, penal values, competencies and orientations. In order to address their professional tensions, parole decision-makers constantly negot…
Deservingness on Trial
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 …
Overcoming Penal Boundaries
The relations between sentencing and post-sentencing stages (e.g., the implementation of prison, parole or community-based sanctions) are often perceived through temporal, spatial and normative binaries. The static time of retributive calibration—as fully known at sentencing time—stands at the heart of this separation. Through qualitative findings drawn from parole-board chairpersons in Israel, the paper argues that retributive punishment may evo…
Parole as resentencing
Parole boards have traditionally assessed prisoners’ future risk and rehabilitation prospects in deciding on early release from prison. However, parole boards may do more. In some systems, they may deny parole applications for punitive reasons, thus acting as a resentencing authority. This study conducted a qualitative analysis of the punitive discourses of parole decision-making, with Israel as a comparative case study. Through interviews with 2…
Parole as a boxing match
Despite being depicted as powerful actors, the work of the State's representatives in parole hearings has to date remained largely invisible. In this study, we aimed to fill this gap through a qualitative analysis of the oral arguments of prosecutors in 130 lifers’ parole board hearings in Israel. The findings suggest that prosecutors construct lifers’ parole hearings as an adversarial, yet asymmetrical, “boxing match.” Three themes were unveiled…
Rehabilitation vs. risk
Parole decisions have a dramatic impact on individuals’ lives as well as public safety. Studies seeking to discern which factors predict parole decisions highlighted the role played by correctional reports submitted to parole boards by rehabilitation authorities; however, very few offered any in-depth insight into them. Moreover, research also failed to explore the interplay of reasoning employed by parole boards and rehabilitation authorities, w…
Punishment as text
Punishment is often performed through judicial texts. Narrative criminology scholarship, however, has paid little attention to how criminalised people engage with these texts when constructing their self-narratives. To fill this gap, based on qualitative findings from formerly incarcerated people in Israel, this paper aimed to theorise their engagement with their sentencing remarks (SR). We found that they experienced their SR as text that held c…
Taking Prison to Court
Scholars have criticized the gap between judicial work and the realities of prison life. In this article, drawn from qualitative findings from Supreme Court Judges in Israel, we analysed how such Judges negotiate their administrative judicial review over prison officials’ decisions. We found that through their judicial review, the Judges either bureaucratise, re-sentence the prisoner or reform prison life. Each theme imagines differently both the…
Biscuits, the World Cup and Nobel Prizes
Records kept by security authorities documenting potentially violent encounters are generally characterized by technocratic language and parsimonious content, which is intended to project an image of objective and impartial state officials. A qualitative analysis of 688 records covering interrogations of suspects in terror activities by the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) presents a very different picture. They consist of representations of (1…
Entrapped in a penal time capsule’
Scholars argue that lifers’ parole can be mobilised to be punitive and politicised. However, how parole decision-makers construct and disguise their punitive and politicised discourses when deciding the paroled subject is understudied, especially with regard to the global south. In this paper, based on content analysis of the dossiers of Delhi's Sentence Review Board (SRB) during 2018–2021, and in-depth interviews with the SRB members, we found t…
Towards a Retributive Concept of Re-entry
Retributive justice is the preferred penal theory in many countries, especially for serious offences, and is a predominant justification for imprisonment. Retributivists, however, have little to say regarding the state’s role towards returning citizens after release from prison. In reality, paroled individuals struggle with continuing surveillance, poverty, stigma and other significant barriers to housing, employment and health. Thus, rates of re…
Managing the Risk of Living
Drawing on Israeli life-sentence parole hearings, we argue that release decisions are centred on the body, not the soul. The board employs a ‘medical gaze’ that dissects the paroled body by magnifying the applicant’s dying body and narrowing the gaze to evaluate the days left to live. A new risk emerges: the risk of living upon release rather than dying. The board is ambivalent when managing this risk: the body is treated with suspicion, the appl…
Revisiting Justice
Expanding the boundaries of the 'moral turn' in criminology to the realm of punishment administration, this Element proposes reconceptualizing parole through a moral lens. Drawing from a mixed-method study of parole hearings for homicide cases in Israel, the author argues that during parole hearings, parole actors (Attorney General representatives, secondary victims, parole applicants, and parole board members) conduct complex forms of moral labo…
Life-sentenced prisoners, crime victims, and the multidialog of parole
This study examined the dynamics of communication between prisoners sentenced for life (lifers), their victims, and parole boards. Against the backdrop of penal dialogue imagined by penal theorists, we analyzed the narratives of lifers and of their victims during parole hearings in Israel, to explore the construction of a multi-dialogue between prisoners, victims, and parole boards. Our findings reveal that both lifers and victims predominantly f…
The remorseful enemy
Soliciting a defendant's remorse during sentencing resonates with the idea that the individual has breached the community's shared moral values but can be reincluded through moral transformation. This article examines a criminal justice system in which remorse is sought from defendants convicted of security offenses, belonging to a community deemed to hold values opposed to those of the state that punishes them. A qualitative analysis of sentenci…
Imagining Freedom
Bridging criminological and philosophical discourses, this article builds upon Berlin's ‘concepts of liberty’ to theorise the meaning of parole release. Through qualitatively analysing 130 Israeli lifers’ Parole Board hearings, we found that lifers focused more heavily on their loss of – and potential to regain – positive liberty than on negative liberty. Here, we detail how lifers progressed beyond reflecting upon their past and their current st…
Terminal Liminality, Life Imprisonment and the Paroled Body
Based on an in-depth analysis of parole board hearings in Israel concerning life sentence prisoners who are old or severely ill, we argue that, rather than opening a window onto new beginnings, parole hearings place applicants in a state of terminal liminality that marks a transition from life into death. We uncover how terminal liminality entails constructing a broken paroled body before the parole board, where matters of life and death are perf…
Lifting the Veil of Ignorance
Criminologists have criticized the gap between retributive theory and prison realities. In this study, we drew on qualitative findings from the Supreme Court judges of Israel to explore how judicial decision-makers construct the relationship between their retributive theory and their vision of prison life. We found that these judges perceived prison to be a disproportionate and cruel punishment. In responding to prison excessiveness, these judges…
Fluid, permutable, and generative
Extending parole scholarship to compare parole punitivity, this paper contrasts two understudied lifers’ parole systems: India and Israel. A qualitative comparative analysis of parole decision-making in both contexts reveals that despite distinct structuring of parole fields, both systems manifest punitivity, reflected in low release rates. Contrasting the construction of (a) punitive consideration (formal versus informal), (b) victims (individua…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (26 obras) · Political science (20 obras) · Law (18 obras) · Psychology (17 obras) · Criminology (16 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (14 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Prison (13 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras)