Sarah Ben-David

Sarah Ben-David is an Israeli professor of criminology whose scientific and public work centers on victimology and the overlapping ground between victimology and criminology. She heads the Department of Criminology at the Ariel University Center of Samaria and founded several service organizations, including Sha'al, a victims' assistance service established in 1979, the sex crime prevention association El'am, and Keleth, a group of criminologists working with correctional services. She also established one of the first community based day treatment centers for sex offenders, and her research concentrates on family violence, women and crime, and violence prevention.