Hava Dayan

Hava Dayan, PhD, LLB is a tenured senior lecturer at the School of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel. Using an interdisciplinary framework of analysis, she teaches, conducts research, and publishes papers on crime, law, and society, with a particular interest in gender, sexual crimes and homicide, and their treatment by criminal doctrines, legislation, and case law. Her book Femicide and the Law: American Criminal Doctrines, published by Routledge in 2018, is a legislative treatise on American criminal doctrines as applied in cases of femicide. Her upcoming book, Femicide, Criminology, and Law, to be published by Routledge in 2022, offers a novel interdisciplinary analysis of femicide by examining both criminological and legal ramifications of the various aspects of the phenomenon. Dr. Dayan is an editorial board member in the peer-reviewed academic journal Women and Criminal Justice. During her visit to Oxford’s Centre for Criminology, she continues work on her book on sexual crimes and her research project on homicide bereavement.