Hava Dayan, PhD, LLB, heads the MA program in crime, law, and society in the School of Criminology, University of Haifa. Using an interdisciplinary, crimino-legal framework of analysis, Dr. Dayan conducts research in the field of criminal law and society, with a particular interest in gender and crime, criminal legislature, femicide, and sexual crimes. Her most recent published papers explore several issues pertaining to lethal violence against women (femicide, uxoricide, battered women who kill their abusers, legal criminal doctrines related to the phenomenon of femicide, and sexual crimes).