CV July 2017

November, 2017

Curriculum Vitae

Mimi Ajzenstadt

Personal Details

Date of birth: September 24, 1956 Country of birth: Israel Nationality: Israeli Family Status: Married No. of children: 2 Home phone: 972-2-6767540 Work phone: 972-2-5882600 E-mail: [email protected]

Higher Education

1992-1994 Post-doctoral fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Department of Sociology and the Institute of Criminology, the Faculty of Law, sociology of law, sociology of deviance.

1985-1992 Ph.D. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, Criminology.

1980-1984 M.A. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Criminology. 1981-1982: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Teaching Certificate, Arabic language

1977-1980 B.A. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Education, Arabic Language

Appointments at the Hebrew University

2012- present Full Professor, the Institute of Criminology, the Faculty of Law and the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare.

2007– 2012 Associate Professor, the Institute of Criminology, the Faculty of Law and the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare.

2002- 2007 Senior Lecturer, the Institute of Criminology, the Faculty of Law and the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare.

1994-2002 Lecturer, the Institute of Criminology, the Faculty of Law and the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work.

Service in other Academic Institutions

Summer, 2011 Visiting Professor, Cambridge University.

Summer, 2010 Visiting Professor. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

2005 -2006 Visiting Professor. University of Maryland, Maryland, USA.

Winter, 2000 Visiting Scholar. Stockholm University, Sweden.

Fall 1999 Visiting Scholar. Yale University, New-Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A., Law School.

1989-1991 Associate Lecturer. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, School of Criminology.

Tasks at the Hebrew University

2014- present Dean, The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work & Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2010- 2014 Provost, Rothberg International School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2013 – 2014 Member, Screening Committee, The department of International Relations. The Hebrew University.

2009-2013 Chair, Screening Committee, the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare.

2005-2014 Member, Advisory Committee, the Hebrew University President's Advisor on the Status of Women.

2011-2012 Member, the Committee for University Ranking.

2009-2010 Member, Screening Committee, the Federman School of Public Policy and Government, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2007 – 2010 Director, The Lafer Center for Gender Research and Women's Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2009-2010 Director, The Institute of Criminology, The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2006- 2009 Vice Director, The Institute of Criminology, The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Academic Committees

2009- present Member, Academic Committee, The Halbert Centre of Canadian Studies.

2009 Chair, Ethics Committee, Faculty of Law.

2005- 2009 Member, Advanced Studies, Faculty of Law.

2001- 2009 Academic Chair, The Schweitzer Fund for Legal and Social Work Community Advocacy, School of Social Work and Social Welfare.

2003-2005 Member, Post-doctoral Awards Committee, Ginsburg Fund, The Social Sciences Faculty. The Hebrew University.

2003-2009 Member, Academic Committee, Clinical Legal Aid Education, Faculty of Law. The Hebrew University.

2005-2010 Chair, Admissions Committee, Institute of Criminology.

1994-1997 Member, Academic Committee of the Lafer Center for Gender Research and Women's Studies.

Other Academic Activity

Editorial Board Positions

2014- present Editor of Megamot, behavioral sciences Journal (Hebrew)

2003- present Associate Editor, The Journal of Experimental Criminology.

2011- present Member, Editorial Board of the European Journal of Criminology.

2007- present Associate Editor, Israeli Criminology.

2011-present Member, Editorial Board, Meegdareem: Gender and Feminism. (Hebrew)

2003-2009 Member, Editorial Board, Israel Law Review.

2003- 2006 Book review editor, Israel Law Review.

Public Committees

2013- 2015 President, Israeli Law and Society Association.

2013- present Member, Israeli Science Foundation, Post-doctoral Committee for the Social Sciences.

2010-present Member, the Board of the Israeli Association of Criminology.

2009-present Member, the Prison Authority, Research Committee.

1998-1999 Member, the Sub Committee for Security and Safety, the Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel.

1999 –2000 Member, the Academic Steering Committee for Hostel of Delinquent Girls, Jerusalem.

Organization of Academic Conference

2011 Member, the International Joint Workshop: Comparison of Welfare States between Korea and Israel. Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, October 6-7, 2011.

2009 Chair, Political Violence, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 4, 2009.

2009 Member, International Workshop: Gender and Religion, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. June 2009

2008 Member, International Workshop, Gender, Children and Families in Mediterranean Welfare States, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 1 – 3, 2008

2007 Chair, The Legal Tender of Gender: International Perspectives on Welfare Law, State Policies and the Regulation of Women’s Poverty. Ontai, Spain. June 6 - 8, 2007,

2005 Chair, the organizing committee, Evidence-based Policy: International Perspectives. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2004 Chair the organizing committee, Juvenile Justice in a Changing Society. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2003 Chair, the organizing committee, Social Workers, Lawyers and Social Change. School of Social Work, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2001 Member, the organizing committee, the Drapkin Symposium: Social Science and the Law. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2000 Chair, the organizing committee,Women in the Welfare State. School of Social Work, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1997 Member, the organizing committee, the Drapkin Symposium: Women: Victimization, Crime and Social Control. Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Research Grants1

2012-2014 Israel Science Foundation (ISF) An Alternative Welfare Sphere and its Implications: Civil society organizations providing welfare services in Israel, with Michal Almog-Bar, $40,000.

2010-2011 The Public Safety Authority – Punishment of Traffic Offences , $40,000.

2009-2011 Van-Leer Institute, NGOization of Civil Spaces: Civil Society, Transformation of Welfare and Women's Organizations, with Michal Almog-Bar, Adriena Kemp, Nitza Berkovits and Amalya Saar, $150,000.

2009 Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Hebrew University, Internet and Access to justice: The case of women in the labor market, $2,000.

2008-2009 The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, Child care and the labor market, with Asher Ben-Arieh and John Gal, $ 15,000.

2008-2009 The National Institute of Social Insurance, Take up in the social insurance system, with John Gal and Asher Ben-Arieh ,$ 40,000.

2008-2009 The Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism and the State of Israel, The development of NGOs providing welfare services to women in Israel, 1900-2008, with Michal Almog-Bar. $ 2,000.

1 A proposal – Criminalization of Immigration - submitted with an European group to the FP7- SSH-2011-2 was "rejected with a high score".

2008 Warburg Fund, The School of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Hebrew University and the JDC. Creating an alternative gendered- welfare space: The development of NGOs providing welfare services to women in Israel, 1900-2008, with Michal Almog-Bar. $10,000.

2007 The Davis Institute, The Hebrew University, A Discourse of Collective Dangerousness: An Analysis of the Limitation Policy on the Entry of Foreigners to Israel, $ 5,000.

2006 Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Hebrew University, Take- up in Israel, with John Gal. $ 4,000.

2005 Science Ministry, Israel, Access to justice in the labor market, with John Gal, $100,000.

2005 Warburg Fund, The School of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Hebrew University and the JDC. Evaluation of programs dealing with unemployment: A meta-analysis, with John Gal. $10,000

2004 Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Hebrew University, Civil legal aid to children, $4 ,000.

2003 The Eshkol Institute, The Hebrew University, Incarcerated mothers, $ 3,000.

2002-2003 The Research Authority of the Hebrew University, Imprisoned Motherhood, $ 6,500.

2001 Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Civil public defense in Israel and Canada, CAD $ 8,000.

2000-2001 The Ministry of Science, Israel, The impact of the public defender on the juvenile court, with Allan Borowski, $ 30,000.

2000-2001 Warburg Fund, The School of Social Work, the Hebrew University and the JDC., The public defense institution in Israel, $10,000.

1999-2000 Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Hebrew University, The public defender in the juvenile court, with Allan Borowski, $5,000

1988 The Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism and the State of Israel, Juvenile delinquency in Israel, 1948-1970, $3,000.

1997-1998 The Research Authority of the Hebrew University, The history of control in Israel, $9,000.

1997 Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Hebrew University, Human rights and the new Israeli Mental Health Law, with Uri Aviram, $5,000.

1996-1997 Warburg Fund, School of Social-Work, The Hebrew University and the JDC, The social discourse of juvenile delinquency, $6,000.

1996 The Halbert Center, The Hebrew University, The socio-legal control of delinquents in Israel and Canada, $5,0001995: The Eshkol Institute, The Hebrew University, Welfare and legal control on girls in distress, $2,500.

1990 The Steel Fund, Simon Fraser University, Policing alcoholism in Western Canada, $7,500.

Awards and Scholarships

2009 Mildred and Benjamin Berger Chair in Criminology

2007 Outstanding Teaching Award, School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2003 Lionel Cohen Senior Lectureship in Law, The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1996-2000 Outstanding Teaching Award, School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Institute of Criminology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1996-1997 Golda Meir fellowship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1996 Birk Prize, the Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1992-1994 Outstanding Teaching Award, The Department of Sociology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1988-1991 Scholarship for outstanding achievement in Doctoral Studies, Simon Fraser University.

1987 The President’s Scholarship, Simon Fraser University.

1983 Judge Kassan Scholarship, the Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

1982 The Dean’s List, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Teaching at the Hebrew University

Supervision

Completed Studies :

Wilimovsky, Inbal (With Simcha Landau)- Date Rape in Israel. (Ph.D)

Blumental, Tehila (with Oriya Tishbi) - Religious Single Mothers. (Ph.D.)

Ben-Harush, Aya, Motherhood and Crime: The Criminal Careers of Women Offenders (Ph.D.)

Ben-David Vered - Judicial-Values Policy Analysis of Adoption Decisions In Israel (Ph.D).

Peri, Zipi - Narratives of Psychotics (Ph.D.)

Ben-Ari Motti (with Professor David Weisburd) - Judges in Israel. (Ph.D.)

Gitit Gilran,- Constructing Identity in a Self Help Group of People suffering from Eating Disorder Problems (Ph.D.)

Seilon, Debbi - (with Professor Allan Borowski) - Women Drug Addicts (Ph.D.)

Ben-Hamu, Michal (with Professor Leslie Sebba) - Welfare Officers as Social Control Agents. (Ph.D.)

Pertz Nadav (with John Gal) Fatherhood and the Welfare State (Ph.D.)

Rotem Afodi – Prison Release (Ph.D.)

Mehajna, Ibraheem,- The Medicalization of Drug Abuse in Israel (MA).

Antonovski, Tali - Gender Influence on Rape Sentencing (MA)

Shalem, Daniel- Justifying Demolition: The Rhetoric of Israel’s Policy of Punitive House Demolition in the Occupied Territories, 1967-1997. (awarded the best MA thesis at the Faculty of Law, 1998-9).

Ben-Ari, Moti - The Social Control of Female Prisoners. (MA).

Peri, Zipi, - Communication of Mentally Ill People through the Internet (MA)

Zehavi, Hadas, - Placement of Juvenile Delinquents (MA).

Nvo, Dvori. - The Impact of the new Arrest Law on Police Work (MA).

Shaar Rotem- Punishment and Treatment in the Prison. (MA).

Lapid- Tamari, Naama, Raped Women in the Court (MA)

Weller Avital, Mental Health Services: From Treatment to Production (MA)

Noga Pitowski, The Workforce as a Socialization Agency (MA)

Halperin, Sara, The Experience of Women Workers in Israel (MA)

Brashi Yameet, The Experience of Prisoners' Children (MA)

Ortal Wasser, Abortion Policy in Israel (MA)

Roi Gideon, Attitudes of elderly people towards Foreign Care Workers (MA).

Tali Rotchild, Women committing White Collar Crimes.

Under Supervision

Haozm Hardal, Poverty among Palestinian Women (Ph.D.)

Lana Jeries , Gender and Delinquency among Palestinian Women (Ph.D.)

Assaf Dekel, Policing Ethnicity (Ph.D.)

Michal Alon, Urbanization and Community Practice (Ph.D.)

Yafit Cohen, Gendered Experiences of Care Workers (Ph.D.)

Lior Birger, Asylum Seekers and the Social Work Profession in Israel and Germany (Ph.D.)

Oleh Vovk, Hate Crimes: legal and Social Perspectives: A Comparative Study (Ph.D.).

Inbar Livnat, Women in the NGO Market (Ph.D.)

Post-doctoral Students

Dr. Belle Gavriel Fried, Lady-Davis post doctoral fellowship, Women Gambling.

Dr. Lilach Luria, Lady-Davis post doctoral fellowship, Welfare Law

Dr. Gabriella Sanchez, University of Arizona, Fulbright Post Doctoral Fellowship, Women Labor Migrants' Experiences.

Courses

I. BA level

Compulsory : 1) Social policy and the welfare state, 2) Sociology of Law, 3) Crime and Deviance, 4) The social construction of crime and criminals. 5) Introduction to Sociology.

Elective: 1) Privatization of social services, 2) Correctional services and the welfare state, 3) Crime, deviance and the State, 4) Constructing societal responses to crime and deviance, (a research seminar).

II. MA level

Compulsory: 1) Advanced theories in criminology, 2) Criminal justice policy, 3) Qualitative research methods, 3) Thesis seminar.

Elective: 1) Crime, control and citizenship, 2) The construction of social problems, 3) Systematic review of qualitative studies in social sork (a research seminar). 4) Prison and society. 5) Gender and social policy.

Review of Academic Work

i. Review of Manuscripts

1) Routledge 2) Magnes Press, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 3) Resling publishers

ii. Review of Academic Programs

1) The Open University 2) Criminology, A college in Israel

iii. Review of Articles in Journals

1) Criminology 2) Law and Social Inquiry 3) The Journal of Social Work Research and Evaluation 4) Policy & Politics

5) Public Administration 6) Sociological Quarterly 7) Signs 8) Journal of Experimental Criminology 9) International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

10) European Journal of Criminology

11) Megamot (Hebrew) 12) Journal of Welfare and Social Security Studies (Hebrew) 13) Israel Law Review 14) Israel Journal of Psychiatry 15) Journal of Child Indicators Research 16) Israeli Criminology (Hebrew) 17) Civil Society in Israel and Third Sector (Hebrew) 18) Gerontology (Hebrew) iv. Review of Research Proposal

1) German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development

2) Israel Science Foundation

3) The Campbell Collaboration Crime & Justice Group

4) The Israeli Anti-Drug Authority

5) The Britain-Israel Research and Academic Exchange Partnership (BIRAX)

6) Marie Curie fellowship with the European Commission's 7th Framework Program

7) Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel.

Participation in Academic Conferences

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) “Social Control, Ethnicity and Illicit Drug Use.” Presented at the International Seminar on Ethnicity and Social Change, Vancouver, University of British Columbia,1987.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi. (lecture) “The Politics of Aids.” Presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, University of Windsor, June, 1988.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Janet Giltrow. (lecture) “Understanding the Text of Prohibition: Discourse Analysis as a Means of Exploring Community Membership.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, Illinois, November, 1988.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi. (lecture) “An Historical Analysis of A Moral Panic: Perceptions of Excessive Drinking in British Columbia, Canada.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Reno, Nevada, November, 1989.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi. (lecture) “The Development of a Quasi-Market System in Israel.” Presented at the ESRC Quasi-Markets Research Seminar, London School of Economics. London September, 1994.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) “Social Control and the Welfare State: Discipline and Regulations in Israel, 1930-1970.” Presented at the International Conference on Law and Society, Glasgow, Scotland, 1996.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) “The Implementation of Rape Laws in Israel.” Presented at the Drapkin Symposium: Women: Victimization, Crime and Social Control, Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January 1997.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) “Constructing Juvenile Delinquency: The Socio- Legal Control of Young Offenders in Israel, 1930-1975.” Presented at the symposium: Constructing Social Work Practices. University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, August 1997.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) “The Development of Socio-Legal Controls over Young Offenders in Israel:1930-1948.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San-Diego, USA, November, 1997.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Zeev Rosenhek (lecture) “Restructuring the Israeli Welfare State: Privatization and New Modes of State Intervention.” Presented at the conference: The Welfare State at Century’s End: Current Dilemmas and Possible Futures. Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, January 5-7, 1988.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) “The Criminological Discourse in Israel, 1948- 1968.” Presented at the Israeli-Italian Legal Conference. Jerusalem, Israel, May 1999.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi, Uri Aviram and Arlene Kanter (lecture) “Involuntary Outpatient Commitment: Treatment or Control?” Presented at the XXIVth International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Toronto, June 13-18, 1999.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) “Constructing Juvenile Delinquency – Creating Civil Society, Israel 1948-1973.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, Canada, November, 1999.

Mimi Ajzenstadt and John Gal (key-note lecture). “Appearances can be Deceptive: Development of Social Policy for Women in Israel.” Presented at the Women in the Israeli Welfare State conference, June 5-6, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, 2000.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) “Alcohol Laws and Racial/Ethnic Minorities in British Columbia, 1871-1927.” Presented at the law and society Conference, May. Vancouver, Canada 2002.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) “The Social Context of Legal Aid: Israeli and Canadian Perspectives.” Presented at the Jerusalem Conference in Canadian Studies. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. June 30-July 4, 2002.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Allan Borowski (lecture) “Public Defenders and the Juvenile Court: An Israeli Experience." Presented at the American Society of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania, 12-16, November 2002.

Borowski, Allan and Mimi Ajzenstadt (lecture) "Probation Officers’ Perspectives on the ‘Arrival’ of Public Defenders in Israel’s Juvenile Courts." Presented at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, Sydney, Australia,1-3 October 2003.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi and David Weisburd (lecture) "What Works in Crime Control: The Israeli Experience." Presented in 1st Key Issues Conference, Societies of Criminology, Paris, France 13-15 May, 2004.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Barak Ariel (lecture) "Civil Legal Aid – An International Perspective." Presented at the Social Policy in Israel in Times of change Conference, Tel Aviv University, January 2005.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Odeda Steinberg (lecture) "Incarcerated Motherhood." Presented at the Feminism, Law and Social Change Conference, Tel-Aviv University April, 3- 5, 2005.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) " Women and Civil-Legal Aid in Pre-State Israel, 1919-1948." Presented at the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Scripps College, Claremont, California, 2-5, June 2005

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) "I haven't yet tasted Anything of Life": The social Context of Incarcerated Motherhood." Presented at the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, 17-29, November 2005.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Barak Ariel (lecture) "Security Prisoners in Israel: A Criminological Perspective." Presented at the Security Prisoners Conference, Tel-Aviv University, January 2006.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) "Women Inmates and Drug Consumption" Presented at the Social work and Drug Addiction Conference. Hebrew University, May 2007–07–28

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) "Women in the Workforce in the Context of Neo- Liberalism: The Case of Israel". Presented at The Legal Tender of Gender: International Perspectives on Welfare Law, State Policies and the Regulation of Women’s Poverty." June 6 - 8 , 2007, Ontai, Spain.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) "Constructing Dangerousness: Minorities and the Criminal Justice System in the Context of Nation-Building Process." Presented at the Minorities and Law Enforcement conference, Hebrew University, January, 2008.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (invited lecture) "Counter-Terrorist Policies in Israel." The Center on Terrorism at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, April 7, 2008.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) "Children, Families and Women in the Israeli State: 1880s -2008." Presented at the International Workshop, Gender, Children and Families in Mediterranean Welfare States, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 1 – 3, 2008

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (Lecture) "Risk and the Construction of Counter-terrorist policies in Israel." Presented at the First ISA World Forum, “Sociological Research and Public Debate” Barcelona, Spain, Thematic Group on Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty TG04, 5-8, September, 2008.

Mimi Ajzenstadt , (Lecture) "The Legal Field and its Methodological Barriers". Presented at the Global, Regional and Local: Law, Politics, and Society in Comparative Perspectives, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 24-26, 2008.

Mimi Ajzenstadt , (Lecture) "Challenges facing Humane Communities: The Contradictory Nature of Community Response to Migrant Labor in Israel." Presented at the International Conference: " Building Safe, Humane and Responsive Communities", Greenville, South Carolina, USA. March 30 – April 1, 2009.

Mimi Ajzenstadt, (Lecture) "Between Legal Individual Irrelevancy and Social Structural Relevancy: Foreign Workers in the Israeli Court." Presented at the American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, U.S.A. November 4 - 7, 2009.

Mimi Ajzenstadt (Lecture) "Judicialization, Neo-Liberalism and Foreign Workers in Israel." Presented at the Israeli Law and Society Association International Conference, Tel Aviv University, December 20-21, 2009.

John Gal and Mimi Ajzenstadt (lecture) " Poverty, Food and Relief: The Straus Soup Kitchens in Mandatory Jerusalem." Presented at the International Conference on Food, Power and Meaning in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva,15 -16 June 2010.

Mimi Ajzenstadt (lecture) "Understanding the Logic of Deterrence: The Regulation of Illegal Immigration in Israel." Presented at the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, U.S.A. November, 17-20, 2010.

Michal Almog-Bar and Mimi Ajzenstadt (lecture) "Women, Welfare and Civil Society Organizations: Creating an Alternative Women’s Welfare Sphere in Israel. Presented at the 2nd ESPA net Israel Conference, Emek Izrael College, Feb. 10th 2011.

Mimi Ajzenstadt (invited lecture) "Crime and Punishment in Israel Today: The Case of Juvenile Delinquency”. Presented at University of Sydney, Australia, April, 6th, 2011.

Mimi Ajzenstadt, (invited lecture) "Incarcerated Women". Presented at the University of Wellington, New Zealand, April 8th, 2011.

Dominique Roberts and Mimi Ajzenstadt (lecture) "The Transvaluation of Violence. From a Criminal to a Public Health Issue.” Presented at the National Conference, Critical perspectives: Criminology and Social Justice, Ottawa, Canada, April 30th – May 1st, 2011.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) "Social Policy and Immigration in Israel." Presented at the International Joint workshop: Comparison of the Welfare States between Korea and Israel. Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea October 6-7, 2011.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (invited lecture) "Crimininalization and the process of 'othering': Undocumented Immigrants in Israel." Presented at The Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam. May 9th, 2012.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (lecture) "The process of 'othering': Foreign workers in the Israeli court." Presented at the International Workshop: New/Hybrid diasporas within globalization. Jerusalem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June, 24th – 26th, 2012.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (invited lecture) "Juvenile justice: Punishment or rehabilitation?." Ranmin University, China, May, 2013

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (invited lecture) "The cultural context of juvenile justice policy in Israel." Presented at the Department of Criminology, University of Albany, USA, September, 2014.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (invited lecture) "The social Construction of Foreign Workers' criminality in Israel." Presented at the School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louise, USA, July, 2015.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi. "Social Policy and Immigration in Israel." Presented at the ISUSW Conference, Luzerne, July, 2017.

Mimi Ajzenstadt and Edith Blit-Cohen " Immigration and Social Control: A view from Israel." Presented at The left hand and the right hand: Linking the politics of social welfare and crime control, Research Collaboration Workshop, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, September 2017

Lior Birger, Yochay Nadan and Mimi Ajzenstadt "Social Work Practice with Refugees: How do Political and Social Contexts affect Trust building within Micro Level Interventions? Exploring the Perspectives of both Refugee Clients and Social Workers." Presented at the European Conference for Social Work Research. Edinburgh April, 2018,

List of Publications

Doctoral Dissertation

The Medical-Moral Economy of Regulations: Alcohol Legislation in B.C., 1871-1925. Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Supervised by John Lowman. (Publications Nos. 11, 22, 24 are based on dissertation materials).

Books

2) Ajzenstadt, Mimi, Soffer, Michal and Steinberg Odeda (2010) In the Prison I Rest: Women Behind the Prison Walls. Tel-Aviv: Hakibutz Hameuhad, Kav Adom Series. (Hebrew).

Edited Books

3) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and John Gal (eds.) (2010). Children, Families and Women in the welfare Mediterranean Countries. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

4) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and John Gal (eds.) (2009). Access to Social Justice in Israel. Jerusalem: The Taub Centre for the Study of Social Policy in Israel (Hebrew).

5) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Guy Mundlak (eds.) (2008) Empowerment on Trial. Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University, Nevo (Hebrew).

Book Chapters

6) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (1996) “The Privatization of Personal Services.” In: Yossi Katan (ed.) Personal Services in Israel. Jerusalem: The Center for the Study of Social Policy in Israel. (Hebrew). Pp.189- 210.

7) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (1998) “The Study of Crime and Social Control: Theoretical Observations.” In: Robbie Friedman (ed.) Crime and Criminal Justice in Israel. Sunny Press. Pp: 3-25.

8) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (1999) “Constructing Juvenile Delinquency: The Socio-Legal Control of Young Offenders in Israel, 1930-1975.” In: A. Jokinen, K. Juhlia and T. Poso (eds.). Constructing Social Work Practices. Aldershot: Ashgate. Pp. 193-214.

9) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (1999) “Women, Violence Against.” In: Kurtz, Lester (ed.) Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict. San Diego CAL: Academic Press. Pp. 813-826. Revised for 2nd edition, Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict, 2008. Pp: 2468-2481.

10) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2001) “Criminological Discourse and Civil Society in Israel, 1948-1968. In: Alfredo Mordechai and Andrea Zanotti (eds.) Developments in European, Italian and Israeli Law. Milano: Dott. A. Giuffre` Editore. Pp. 461-472.

11) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2002) “Racializing Prohibitions: Alcohol Laws and Racial/Ethnic Minorities in British Columbia, 1871-1927.” In: John McLaren, Robert Menzies and Dorothy E. Chunn (eds.). Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law. Vancouver, U.B.C. Press. Pp. 97-119.

12) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Guy Mundlak (2008) "Empowerment on Trial." In: Mimi Ajzenstadt and Guy Mundlak (eds.). Empowerment on Trial. Tel- Aviv: Tel-Aviv University, Nevo (Hebrew). Pp. 9-53.

13) Gal, John, Michael Shalev and Mimi Ajzenstadt (2009) "Universal Take- Ups in the National Security System: An Empirical Examination." In: Access to Social Justice in Israel. Jerusalem: The Taub Centre for the Study of Social Policy in Israel (Hebrew). Pp. 187-224.

14) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and John Gal (2009) "Introduction: Access to Social Justice in Israel." In: Mimi Ajzenstadt and John Gal (eds.). Access to Social Justice in Israel. Jerusalem: The Taub Centre for the Study of Social Policy in Israel (Hebrew). Pp. 11-27.

15) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Vered Ben-David (2009) "Access to Justice and the Internet." In: Mimi Ajzenstadt and John Gal (eds.). Access to Social Justice in Israel. Jerusalem: The Taub Centre for the Study of Social Policy in Israel (Hebrew). Pp. 341-375.

16) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2010) "Children, Families and Women in the Israeli State: 1888-2008." In: Mimi Ajzenstadt and John Gal (eds.).Children, Families and Women in the welfare Mediterranean Countries. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Pp. 143-163.

17) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2010). The Jewish Women's Equal Rights Association of Palestine and its Struggle to Establish the Role of "Mother of the Family' in Pre-State Israel, 1919-1948." In: Eyal Katvan, Margalit Shilo and Ruth Halperin-Kadari (eds.). One Law for Man and Woman: Women, Rights and Law in Mandatory Palestine. Ramt-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press (Hebrew). Pp.57-85.

18) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2010) "Women in the Workforce in the Context of Neo- Liberalism: The Case of Israel." In: Shelley A.M. Gavigan and Dorothy

E. Chunn. (Eds.) The Legal Tender of Gender: Law, Welfare and the Regulation of Women's Poverty. Oxford: Hart. Pp. 123-141.

19) Jonathan, Tal, Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Weisburd, David (2010). Israel. In M. K. Nalla (Volume ed.) and G. R. Newman (General ed.), Crime and Punishment around the World: Volume 1- Africa and the Middle East. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. Pp. 283-297.

20) Ajzenstadt Mimi (forthcoming) "Qualitative data in systematic reviews" In: David Weisburd and David Farrington (eds.) What Works in Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation? Lessons from Systematic Reviews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

21) Ajzenstadt Mimi (2014)" Youth justice in Israel." In: Michael Tonry (ed.). Oxford Handbooks Online in Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/97801999353 83.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935383-e-011?print=pdf

Edited Journals

22) Wilson David and Ajzenstadt Mimi (eds.) Policing Research (2011). A special issue of the Journal of Experimental Criminology. Volume 7, Number 4.

Articles in Refereed Journals

23) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Brian Burtch (1990) “Medicalization and Regulation of Alcoholism: The Professions and Disciplinary Measures.” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 13 (1-2): 127-147.

24) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (1994) “The Changing Image of the State: The Case of Alcohol Regulations in British Columbia. The Canadian Journal of Sociology. 4: 441-460.

25) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Brian Burtch (1994) “The Idea of Alcoholism: Changing Perceptions of Alcoholism and Treatment in British Columbia, 1870-1988.” Health and Canadian Society Journal. 2(1): 9- 34.

26) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (1995) “Cycles of Control: Alcohol Regulation and the Construction of Gender Role, British Columbia 1870-1925.” International Journal of Canadian Studies. 11, Spring: 101-120.

27) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Odeda Steinberg (1995) “The Elasticity of the Law: Treating Girls in Distress in Israel through the Shadow of the Law.” The British Journal of Criminology. 35(2): 236-247.

28) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Odeda Steinberg (1997) “The Feminization of the Female Offender.” The Journal of Women and Criminal Justice. 8(4): 57-77.

29) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Zeev Rosenhek (2000) “Privatization and new Modes of State Intervention: The Long-Term Care Program in Israel.” Journal of Social Policy. 29(2): 247-262.

30) Aviram, Uri, Zvia Admon, Mimi Ajzenstadt, and Arlene Kanter (2000) “Change and Preservation in Mental Health Legislation in Israel: The Legislative Process of Israel’s new Mental Health Law.” Mishaptim, 31(1): 145-191 (Hebrew).

31) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2001) "The Construction of Juvenile Delinquency in Light of Normality, Palestine 1922-1944.” Megamot. 41(1-2): 71-96. (Hebrew).

32) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and John Gal (2001) “Appearances can be deceptive: Gender in the Israeli Welfare State.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society. 8(3): 292-324.

33) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Odeda Steinberg (2001) “Never mind the Law: Legal Discourse and Rape Reform in Israel.” Affilia - Journal of Women and Social Work. 16(3): 337-359.

34) Ajzenstadt, Mimi, Uri Aviram, Moshe Kalian, and Arlene Kanter Arlene (2001) “Involuntary Outpatient Commitment in Israel: Treatment or Control?” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 24:637-657.

35) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Gabriele Cavaglion (2002).“The Sexual Body of the Young Jew as an Arena of Ideological Struggle: 1821-1948.” Symbolic Interaction. 25(1): 93-116.

36) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2002) “Crime, Social Control and the Process of Social Classification: Juvenile Delinquency/Justice Discourse in Israel, 1948- 1970.” Social Problems. 49 (4)::585-604.

37) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Gabriele Cavaglion (2003-2004) "Sociological Perspectives on the Origins of Child Abuse Legislation in Israel." Israel law Review. 37(1): 169-196.

38) Allan Borowski and Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2005) "A solution without a Problem: Judges' Perspectives on the Impacts of the Introduction of Public Defenders on Israel's Juvenile Courts." British Journal of Criminology. 45(2): 183-200.

39) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2005) " Reactions to Juvenile Delinquency in Israel, 1950-1970: A Social Narrative.'" Journal of Policy History. 17(4): 404- 424.

40) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Allan Borowski (2005) "Setting things straight: Probation Officers' Perspectives on the Impacts of the Introduction of Public Defenders on Israel's Juvenile Courts." Qualitative Social Work. Vol. 4(1): 33-50.

41) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Gabriele Cavaglion (2005) " Stories about Child Sexual Abuse: Textual Analysis of Instruction Manuals in Israel." Qualitative Sociology. 28(3): 255-274.

42) Allan, Borowski, and Mimi Ajzenstadt (2007) "Achieving Justice for Children: Public Defenders in Israel's Juvenile Courts." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. 51: 191- 211.

43) Ajzenstadt, Mimi, John Gal and Alon Shapira (2007) "Towards Evidence- Based Policy: A Systematic Review of Programs dealing with Unemployment." Israeli Sociology. 9(1): 41-70. (Hebrew).

44) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2007) "The Dangerousness of 'Risk'". Social Security. 75: 65-88. (Hebrew).

45) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Barak Ariel (2008) "Terrorism and Risk Management: The Israeli case." Punishment and Society. 10(4): 355– 374.

46) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2009) "The Relative Autonomy of Women Offenders' Decision-Making." Theoretical Criminology. 13(2): 201-225.

47) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2009) "Moral Panic and Neo-Liberalism: The Case of Single Mothers on Welfare in Israel." British Journal of Criminology. 49(1): 68-87.

48) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2009) "Judicialization, Neo-Liberalism and Foreign Workers in Israel." International Review of Constitutionalism. 9(1): 107- 133.

49) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and David Bar-Gal (2010) "The Birth of the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1953-1958)". Society and Welfare. 30(1): 9-27. (Hebrew).

50) Soffer, Michal and Mimi Ajzenstadt (2010) "On Stigma and Otherness: Mirror Representations of HIV/AIDS and Heart Disease in the Israeli Press." Qualitative Health Research. 20 (8): 1033-1049.

51) Bar–Almog, Michal and Mimi Ajzenstadt (2010) "Women, Welfare and Civil Society Organizations: Creating an Alternative Women’s Welfare Sphere in Israel". Social Policy and Administration. 44(6): 673–688.

52) Soffer, Michal and Mimi Ajzenstadt (2010) "The Multidimensionality of 'Pains of Imprisonment' among Incarcerated Women in Israel" Women and Health. 50(6):491-505.

53) Fried, Bell and Mimi Ajzenstadt (2011) "Pathological Women Gamblers: Gender-Related Aspects of Control." Sex Roles. 66:128-142. Impact Factor: 1.213.

54) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Assaf Shapira (2012) "The Socio-Legal Construction of Otherness under a Neo-Liberal Regime: The Case of Foreign Workers in the Israeli Criminal Courts." British Journal of Criminology. 52: 685-704.

55) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Mona Khoury-Kassabri (2012) "The Cultural Context of Juvenile Justice Policy in Israel." Journal of Social Policy. 1- 18.

56) Fried, Bell and Mimi Ajzenstadt (2012) "Securitization vs the yearning for peace in the Israeli casino discourse." International Gambling Studies, 1-16.

57) Statland-Vaintraub, Olga, Mona Khoury-Kassabri, Mimi Ajzenstadt and Shabi Amedi (2012) "Risk Factors for Involvement in Delinquency among Immigrants and Native-Born Israeli Girls." Children and Youth Services Review. 34(10): 2052-2060.

58) Gal, John and Mimi Ajzenstadt (2013) "The Long Path from a Soup Kitchen to a Welfare State in Israel." Journal of Policy History. 25(2): 240-263.

59) Kravets-Fenner, Yuliana, Mona Khoury-Kassabri, Mimi Ajzenstadt and Shabi Amedi, (2013). "Risk Factors for Delinquency and Anti-Social Behavior among Adolescents treated by the Division of Att-Risk Youth. Society and Welfare. 33(1): 41-70. (Hebrew).

60) Belle Gavriel-Fried, Einat Peled and Mimi Ajsenstadt (2015) Normative identity construction among women diagnosed with a gambling disorder. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 85(2):159-169.

61) Mimi Ajzenstadt and John Gal (2015) "Social Work and the Construction of Poverty in Palestine in the 1930s. Journal of Qualitative Social Work. 14: 154-169.

62) Shomron Moyal and Mimi Ajzenstadt (2015) "Judging Road-accidents in Israel.". Mishpateem 14: 933-972 (Hebrew).

63) Fried, Bell and Mimi Ajzenstadt (forthcoming) "Peace and War Narratives in the Casino Discourse in Israel. Megamot. (Hebrew).

64) Bar–Almog, Michal and Mimi Ajzenstadt (2015) "You feel that you bump into a wall and you establish an NGO: Grassroots organizations, providing welfare services." Social Security, 98: 97-128 (Hebrew).

Monographs

65) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and John Gal (2001). Gender in the Israeli Welfare State. Jerusalem: The Center for the Study of Social Policy in Israel. (Hebrew).

66) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Barak Ariel (2006). Civil Legal Aid in Israel. Jerusalem: The School of Social Work and Social Welfare. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Hebrew).

67) Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2007). The Context of Decision-Making: The Case of Female Offenders. The Jerusalem Criminal Justice Study Group, the Faculty of Law, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

68) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Barak Ariel (2007). Counter-Terrorism Policy and Risk Management. The Jerusalem Criminal Justice Study Group, the Faculty of Law, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

69) Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Noa Laor (2009). Parental Arrangements in the Labor Market: A Comparative Review. The School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Hebrew).

70) John Gal, Mimi Ajzenstadt, Asher Ben-Arieh, Roni Holler and Nadine Zielinsky (2010) Israeli Child Policy and Outcomes. OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 104. http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2010doc.nsf/LinkTo/NT00000EBE/$FILE/J T03280340.PDF.

71) Mimi Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Shomron Moyal (2013) Punishment of Traffic Offences. The Public Safety Authority. (Hebrew).

Book Reviews.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2004). Saul Becker and Alan Bryman (eds.) Understanding Research for Social Policy and Practice: Themes, Methods and Approaches. Social Security (Hebrew).

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (2000) Raffi Tohn: The Struggle for Women’s Rights: The Story of Sara Thon. Welfare and Society. Vol. 50. No. 3:404-406 (Hebrew).

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (1998) Eshed-Pelek: Psychology and No-man's Land. Welfare and Society. 18(3): 493-495 (Hebrew).

Ajzenstadt, Mimi and Robert Menzies (1991). Nikolas Rose: Governing the Soul: the Shaping of the Private Self. The Canadian Journal of Sociology. Vol. 16. No.2:223-227.

Ajzenstadt, Mimi (in press) Mira Barkai and Mili Mass: The Meanings of “Parental Capability” and the “Best Interests of the Child.” Social Security. (Hebrew).