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Department of Sociology and anthropology The Minerva Center for Youth Studies. The University of Haifa. Tel: (972-4)-8240014; (972-4)-8249-709 Fax: (972-4)-8249819 fgidi@soc.haifa.ac.il
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Department of Sociology and anthropology The Minerva Center for Youth Studies. The University of Haifa. Tel: (972-4)-8240014; (972-4)-8249-709 Fax: (972-4)-8249819 fgidi@soc.haifa.ac.il
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Research interests: General criminology, victimology, violent behavior and suicide, judicial behavior, Juvenile delinquency, and youth policy.
Education: Ph.D. Sociology, 1974, The Ohio State University, Columbus M.A. Sociology, 1971, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada B.A. Sociology and Political Science, 1968, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Academic Rank and Tenure in Institutions of Higher Education: 1974-1979 University of Haifa, Lecturer. 1979-1987 University of Haifa, Senior Lecturer. 1987-1997 University of Haifa, Associate Professor. 1997 University of Haifa, Full Professor.
Research
and teaching positions at other universities: 1975 Summer, Carleton University, Ottawa, Visiting Lecturer. 1977 Summer, Carleton University, Ottawa, Visiting Lecturer. 1979 Summer, Carleton University, Visiting Professor. 1980-1981 University of South Florida, Tampa, Department of Criminal Justice, Visiting Professor of Criminology, 1985 July-Dec. The Hubert Humphrey Inst. and the Dept. of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, Visiting Professor and Research Fellow. 1986 Summer, Carleton University, Ottawa,Visiting Professor. ------- Jan-Feb., Hubert Humphrey Inst. Univ. of Minnesota, Senior Research Fellow. 1989 Summer, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Visiting Professor Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology. 1991-1993 Periodical visits for collaborative research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Center for Youth Policy, Visiting Professor, and Research Fellow. 1993-1994 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies. The Hebrew University. Jerusalem 1994-1996 Visiting Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Youth Policy, and the School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania. 1996- Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of Youth Policy, The University of Pennsylvania.
Offices in University Academic Administration: Since 1978 intermittently, Member of the university senate and its standing committee. 1981-1983 Department Chairman, Department of Sociology, the University of Haifa. 1981-1984 Member of the University Senate, and the Board of Governors. 1985-1989 Academic director of the "Emeq Yizreel" college; Univ. of Haifa branch. 1986-1989 Head of the Research Committee at the Faculty of Social Sciences. 1989-1992 Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Mathematics. 1995- Co-Director, The Minerva Center for Youth Studies 1997- Member of the University’s Appointment and Promotion Committee 1999- Dean of Graduate Studies
Selected Scholarly Activities Outside the University:
Grants:
Grant from the Israeli Ministry of labor to study family violence and Children at risk 1999 A grant from the city of Haifa to extent the family violence and children at risk to the population of the city of Haifa 2000 Grand from the Federal German Government (DFG) for the second stage of the study of political socialization of youth. Publications: Ph.D. Dissertation: Post Institutional Outcome and Functioning: A Study of Juvenile Residential Treatment Center. Supervisor: Prof. Simon Dinitz.
Books: Raised By the Government (with Ira M. Schwartz). Contract with Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. January 1999.Justice for All: Jews and Arabs in Israel's Criminal Justice System with Arye Rattner). Greenwood Publishing Group INC.. August 1998.
Edited journal issue: Co-editor (with Arye Rattner) of a special issue of Journal of Quantitative Criminology. Publication date: April 1997
Selected Journal Articles (Last 5 years):
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