Curriculum Vitae
Name: Gabriel Cavaglion
Address: Kfar Adumim, 90618, Israel
Tel.: 0 0972-2-5355525
Fax.: 00972-2-5901929
e-mail: gabi58@zahav.net.il
Instruction
Academic degree
B.S.W.
Institution
The School of Social Work
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1982
M.A. (cum laude)
Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1991
Ph.D.
Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1998
2005
Senior Lecturer (Ashkelon College)
Title of M.A. dissertation: “The Societal Reaction Against Cults in Israel”.
Mentor: Prof. Stanley Cohen
Title of Ph.D. dissertation: “The Professional Discourse of Sexual Education in Israel”
Mentors: Prof. Stanley Cohen (London School of Economics), Prof. Ze’ev Klein (The
Hebrew University).
Other certifications:
Yoga instructor (1987), Holistic yoga center, Jerusalem
Gestalt group therapist (1992), Tel Aviv University
Certified Jungian psychotherapist (2007), Kibutzim Seminar
Member of the Israeli Association of Psychotherapy (2008)
Fields of Scientific interest:
Penology, informal social control of the body, Social control of sexuality, Education,
medicine and Social control, cultural construction of social problems, Gestalt and
psychopathology, Jungian Cultural Studies.
Special awards:
Outstanding M.A. student, 1990 (special prize)
Outstanding M.A. dissertation, 1991 (special prize)
Excellency Teaching, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Faculty of Law, 1999
Excellency Teaching, Ashkelon Academic College, 2000.
Excellency Teaching, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Faculty of Law, 2004.
Senior Lecturer, Ashkelon Academic College, September 2005.
Excellency Teaching, Ashkelon Academic College, 2006 (special prize).
Excellency Teaching, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Faculty of Law, 2006.
Gabriel Cavaglion: publications
Books
Shoham, G., Shavitt, G., and Einat, T., Cavaglion, G. ( 2008 in press) Crimes and
Punishment: an Introduction to Penology, Tel Aviv: Ach (in Hebrew).
Papers
Cavaglion, G. (2000). The institutionalization of knowledge in Israeli sex education
programs a historical overview 1949-1987, Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, vol.
25, no. 4, pp. 286-293.
Cavaglion, G. (2000). Childhood as a social construction: the case of sex education in the
Jewish settlement of the early 20th century, Megamot, Behavioral Sciences Journal (in
Hebrew), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 531-545.
Cavaglion, G. (2001). The discovery of the erotic child in Mandatory Palestine: The case
of the “Unit of School Hygiene”. Cathedra (in Hebrew). vol. 101, no. 4, pp. 125-150.
Cavaglion, G. (2001). Changing definitions of homosexuality in sexual education in
Israel: new bottles for old wines. The College Voice: Research, Essays, Literary Works
(in Hebrew), no. 13, pp. 77-96.
Cavaglion G., Ajzenstadt, M. (2002). The sexual body of the young Jew as an arena of
ideological struggle, 1821-1948, Symbolic Interaction, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 93-116.
Cavaglion G. (2004) The rise and fall of sexual education in the Kibbutzim, Cathedra,
113 (in Hebrew), 53-82.
Ajzenstadt M., Cavaglion G. (2004). Sociological perspectives on the origins of child
abuse legislation in Israel. Israel Law Review, 37, pp. 169-196.
Cavaglion, G. and Shayovitz-Sela, R. (2004) Media Coverage of the Satanic Cult and
Heavy Metal Rock in Israel, Mifgash Educational- Social Work, 20 (in Hebrew), pp.
109-133.
Ajzenstadt, M. and Cavaglion G. (2005) Telling Stories about Child Abuse: the Case of
Prevention Politics in Israel, Qualitative Sociology, 28, no. 3, pp. 255-274.
Cavaglion, G. and Shayovitz-Sela R. (2005) The Cultural Construction of Contemporary
Satanic Legends, Folklore- Journal of the British Folklore Society, 116, December, pp.
255-271.
Cavaglion, G. (2007) The institutionalization of sexual education in Israel, The College
Voice: Research, Essays, Literary Works (in Hebrew), special edition, 16, pp. 105-146.
Cavaglion, G. (2007) The Criminal as a Cultural Hero? The Case of Brinks Theft.
Folklore- Journal of the British Folklore Society, Vol. 118, no. 3, December, pp. 245260.
Cavaglion, G. (2008) Bad, Mad or Sad? Mothers Who Kill and Press Coverage in Israel,
Accepted for publication by Culture, Media and Crime, Vol. 4 no. 2, pp. 9-16.
Cavaglion, G. (2008) "Bad or Mad? Parents who kill and media coverage in Israel",
chapter accepted for publication, Laura Torres (ed.) Evil and Wickedness 8, Probing
the Boundaries Publications, e-book.
Cavaglion, G. (2008) The theoretical framing of a social problem: the societal reaction
against cults in Israel. Israel Affairs. Vol. 14, no. 1, January, pp. 84-102.
Cavaglion, G. (2008 in press), "'Ilan King of Israel: Identification with and Glorification
of a Criminal by a Public of Internet Surfers", in Shlomo Giora Shoham and Uri Timor
editors: Introduction to Penology, selected papers. Ach Publications (in Hebrew).
Cavaglion, G. (2008) "Voices of coping in an Italian self-help virtual community of
cyberporn dependents" accepted by Cyberpsychology and Behavior.
Cavaglion, G. (2008) Mad or Bad? Fathers who Kill and Press Coverage in Israel
Child Abuse Review 17.
Cavaglion, G. (2008) "Cyber-porn dependence: voices of distress in an Italian internet
self-help community", accepted by International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction
Cavaglion, G. (2008) "Narratives of Self Help of Cyberporn Dependents" accepted by
Journal of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity.
Cavaglion, G. (2008) "A Case Study of a Monomyth Created by a Little Girl" submitted
to the Journal of Jungian Therapy and Practice.
Cavaglion, G. (2008) "The Cultural Denial of Sexual Slavery" submitted to Asian and
Pacific Journal of Migration.
Book Reviews
Cavaglion G. (2008): Noy, Chaim (author) A Narrative Community: Voices of Israeli
Backpackers, Discourse and Communication, no. 2, pp. 103-105.
Not peers reviewed papers
Cavaglion, G. (2006) C'è ancora uno Stato in Israele? Limes, Rassegna Italiana di
Geopolitica, (Italian Review of Geopolitics) September, no. 2 (in Italian).
Cavaglion, G. (2007), Bad or Mad? Parents who kill and media coverage in Israel,
Salzburg "Interdisciplinary Conference on "Evil and Wickedness" Conference
Proceeding, www.wickedness.net/evil/evil%208/cavaglion.pdf
Journal Peer Reviews
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology,
CyberPsychology and Behavior.
International congresses:
“Critical content analysis in the narratives of children sex abuse manuals in Israel”,
presented at the 6th International Symposium of Victimology, Amsterdam, August 1997.
“Freud in the classroom: the case of sexual education in the Jewish Yishuv” presented at
the International Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, Tel Aviv, June, 2000.
“Instructions to fear: the case of child sexual abuse prevention in Israeli Education”
presented at the Second International Conference of the European Society of
Criminology, Toledo, Spain, September, 2002.
“Media coverage of parents who kill in Israel”, presented at the 16th World Meeting of
the International Society for Research on Aggression, Santorini, Greece, September 2004.
"The societal reaction to Satanism in Israel", Presented at the 5th International Conference
of the European Society of Criminology, Krakow, Poland, September, 2005.
"The criminal as a cultural hero" presented at the 6th International Conference of the
European Society of Criminology, Tuebingen, Germany, August, 2006.
"Bad, sad or mad? Parents who kill and media coverage in Israel"' presented at the 7TH
Interdisciplinary Conference on "Evil and Wickedness" (inter-disciplinary group),
Salzburg, Austria, March, 2007.
"The cultural denial of sexual slavery" International Conference on "Violence and
Hostility" (inter-disciplinary group), Budapest, Hungary, May, 2008.
"Voices of coping and distress in a porn-dependent Italian self-help group" presented at
the 8th International Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Edinburgh,
Scotland, September 2008.