Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg

• PhD
• Bar Ilan University Law Faculty, Professor of Law; Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley Law School (2021-2022)

The last decade has seen the establishment of eight community courts (CCs) in Israel, representing a significant shift from the mainstream criminal justice approach. Inspired by the Red Hook Community Justice Center in Brooklyn, New York, the Israeli CCs reflect an understanding of the links between local communities, crime and rehabilitation. The...

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 reci...

The chapter explores gender-based violence (GBV) and police responses to it in Israel, adopting a theoretical framework based on Intersectionality, Crimmigration and Legal Violence literature. Drawing on primary and secondary materials as well as on 38 in-depth interviews with public servants, civil society service providers, activists, and asylum...

תקציר בעברית: עם פרוץ מגפת הקורונה בישראל, החלו בתי-משפט לקיים חלק מדיוני המעצר כאשר החשוד או הנאשם נוכחים מרחוק—בהיוועדות חזותית (ולעיתים קולית בלבד), ואת חלקם האחר כאשר החשוד או הנאשם נוכחים פיזית באולם בית-המשפט. מדיניות זו הוחלה הן על דיוני "מעצר ימים", הן על דיוני "מעצר עד-תום-ההליכים". המאמר מתבסס על מסד נתונים ייחודי של 376 תצפיות מובנות ופת...

1. Introduction One of the most controversial issues in criminal law is when and to what extent we should impose criminal liability and punishment on accomplices who do not commit the crime but contributed indirectly to its commission. Philosophers and criminal law scholars have noted the difficulty of attributing criminal liability to aiders and i...

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 j...

In this Article, we consider whether granting constitutional protections can improve animal welfare. To that end, we carry out a comparative analysis of legal systems that protect animal rights by constitutional tools, identify and analyze the ideas underlying those protections, and explore their adaptability. Focusing mainly on the Israeli case, w...

This chapter explores the interaction between risk, just desert, and character retribution considerations in sentencing and parole. Through analyzing American and Israeli sentencing and parole cases, we show how, in practice, court uses risk, just desert, and character retribution considerations in parole case law and how character retribution may...

This article provides an empirical, comparative analysis of three criminal justice programs that reflect different social and ideological accounts: community courts, arraignment hearings, and restorative justice. The study draws on empirical findings that have been collected over three years in Israel, through observations and archival documentatio...

This article seeks to reveal, conceptualize, and analyze a trend in the development of the retributive theory of punishment since the beginning of the 21st century. We term this trend “retributarianism.” It is reflected in the emergence of retributive approaches that through expanding the concepts of censure and culpability extend the relevant time...

Measuring the restorativeness of restorative justice: the case of the Mosaica Jerusalem Programme This study uses a Jerusalem-based restorative justice programme as a case study to characterise community restorative justice (CRJ) conferences. On the basis of the Criminal Law Taxonomy, an analytical instrument that includes seventeen measurable char...

Community courts (CCs) provide a therapeutic diversion for repeat low-level offenders. This article explores the characteristics of two Israeli CCs using the Criminal Law Taxonomy (CLT), an instrument developed by the authors for assessing process-, stakeholder-, substance-, and outcomes-related characteristics of criminal justice mechanisms. Throu...

May criminalization constitute a violation of a constitutional right? This question has rarely been discussed directly in the legal literature. This Article offers a novel and fully developed normative framework for courts to review the constitutionality of substantive criminal law. It suggests a distinction between extra- and intra-constitutional...

Criminal law pursues multiple goals: retribution, deterrence, expressive justice, rehabilitation, restoration, and reconciliation. Scholars tend to analyze these goals and their implementation in separation from each other, without accounting for their interplay and coordination. A theory of criminal law multitasking is overdue. This Article sets u...

This Essay develops a model that integrates restorative justice within the conventional punitive system of criminal responsibility and punishment. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, we demonstrate that restorative justice should form a synergy with retributivism, deterrence, incapacitation, and other punitive goals of criminal law. We show how th...

בשלושת העשורים האחרונים התבסס מעמדה של גישת הצדק המאחה כפרדיגמה חלופית לתפיסה העונשית. הצדק המאחה מתייחס למעשה העבירה כאל פגיעה ביחידים ובמערכות יחסים. הפגיעה יוצרת מחויבות לאחות את הנזקים, כפי שהם מוגדרים על ידי הנפגע והאחרים שהושפעו ממנה. האחריות המרכזית מוטלת על מבצע העבירה, תוך שותפות קהילת התמיכה בהסדרת התנהגותו, בפיקוח עליה ובמתן תמיכה לו ולנ...

א' ו-ב' חוברים יחדיו לביצוע שוד בנק. טרם יציאתם לדרך הם מסכמים את פרטי ביצוע השוד ואת חלוקת התפקידים ביניהם. על פי המוסכם, ייגש א' לפקידת הבנק ויושיט לעברה פתק ובו דרישה לקבל את המזומנים שבקופה, תוך איום באקדח. במקביל יאסוף ב' את המזומנים שתמסור הפקידה לתיקו, ובתום פעולתו יימלטו השניים מהבנק. עוד מסכמים השניים, כי במהלך ביצוע השוד האקדח שיישא א' יה...

Should the victim of a domestic crime be entitled to express her views and concerns when her violent spouse is being sentenced, even if her request is for leniency? This may well be the most difficult question for supporters of victims' rights, who are accustomed to relate to victims who ask for severe sentences for their assailants. This question...

This article discusses the cultural challenge posed by the provision of legal assistance to victims of domestic violence from among cultural minority groups. Due to the special nature of these groups, this kind of legal assistance must take regard of the particular cultural world of each victim, of her 'otherness', and of her special needs that req...

The article discusses the question of to what degree the criminal proceeding should allow the voices of sexual assault victims to be heard in court, in a way that serves the classic goals of the criminal trial and, at the same time, offers them a therapeutically valuable tool of empowerment. This paper explains, by portraying the gap between therap...