Gila Amitay

A senior lecturer at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College and the head of the Center for Action Research and Social Justice. She received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. She teaches at the department of criminology and a is member of several human rights and children’s’ rights organizations. Her main research themes concern power-structure and social construction and refine practices of opposition to oppression in educational and correction settings. She specializes in researching facilities of education and rehabilitation and also spiritual rehabilitation for people in social exclusion, especially youth and young adults and young women who experience social exclusion.