Dr Tali Gal

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DR. Tali Gal is Senior Lecturer at the University of Haifa, where she is Head of the School of Criminology and a Co-Chair of the Center for the Study of Law, Crime and Society. Her scholarship integrates legal, criminological, and psycho-social knowledge and involves restorative justice, children’s rights, and therapeutic jurisprudence. She is the author of the book Child Victims and Restorative Justice: A Needs-Rights Model (OUP, 2011), and co-editor (with Benedetta Faedi-Duramy) of International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation (OUP, 2015). She has published extensively in peer-review as well as law-review journals on the areas of her expertise. Tali is an Associate Editor at The International Journal of Restorative Justice and a Board Member of the Israeli Society of Victimology. Prior to joining academia, Tali was the Legal Advisor of the Israel National Council for the Child.

Research

Publications

Books:

T. Gal, CHILD VICTIMS AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE: A NEEDS/RIGHTS MODEL. Oxford University Press 2011

T. Gal & B. Faedi Duramy (eds.), INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND EMPIRICAL FINDINGS ON CHILD PARTICIPATION: FROM SOCIAL EXCLUSION TO CHILD-INCLUSIVE POLICIES. Oxford University Press 2015

Selected journal articles:

S. Bessell and T. Gal (2009). “Forming Partnerships: The Human Rights of Children in Need of Care and Protection”, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS 17, pp. 283—298.

T. Gal and S. Moyal (2011). “Juvenile Victims in Restorative Justice: Findings from the Reintegrative Shaming Experiments", BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY 51(6), pp. 1014—1034.

H. Dancig-Rosenberg and T. Gal (2013). “Restorative Criminal Justice”, CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 34, pp. 2313—2346.

H. Dancig-Rosenberg and T. Gal (2015). “Criminal Law Multitasking”, LEWIS & CLARK LAW REView 18, pp. 893—933. T. Gal (2016). “‘The conflict is ours’: Community Involvement in Restorative Justice”, CONTEMPORARY JUSTICE REVIEW 19(3), pp. 289—306.

T. Gal and Dahlia Schilli-Yerichover (2017). “Mainstreaming Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Family Law: The Israeli Child Protection Law as a Case Study”. FAMILY COURT REVIEW 55, pp. 177—194.

T. Gal (2017). “An Ecological Model of Child and Youth Participation”, CHILDREN & YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW 79, pp. 57—64.

T. Gal and Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg (2017), “Characterizing Community Courts”, BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES & THE LAW 35(5-6), pp. 523—539.

T. Gal, H. Dancig-Rosenberg, and G. Enosh (2018), “Measuring the Restorativeness of Restorative Justice: The Case of the Mosaica Jerusalem Program”, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE 1(2) pp. 252-273.

Shira Leiterdorf -Shkedy and T. Gal (2019), "The Sensitive Prosecutor: Emotional Experiences of Prosecutors in Criminal Proceedings", THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW AND PSYCHIATRY 63, PP. 8-17.

T. Gal, H. Dancig-Rosenberg (2020), “Characterizing Multi-door Criminal Justice: A Comparative Analysis of Three Criminal Justice Mechanisms”, NEW CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW 23(1) pp. 139-166.

T. Gal, & H. Dancig-Rosenberg (2020). 'I Am Starting to Believe in the Word ‘Justice’: Lessons from an Ethnographic Study on Community Courts", AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW 68(2), 376-411.

T. Gal (2020). “Restorative Justice Myopia”, THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, 3(3), 341-355.

B. Faedi-Duramy & T. Gal (2020). “Understanding and Implementing Child Participation: Lessons from the Global South”, CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW 119, 105645, 1-8.

T. Gal (2021), “Setting Standards for Child-Inclusive Restorative Justice”, FAMILY COURT REVIEW, 59(1), 144-160.

H. Avieli, t. Band Winterstein, & T. Gal (2021), “Challenges in Implementing Restorative Justice with Older Adults: Institutional Gatekeepers and Social Barriers”, BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK 51, 1445–1462.

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