NAME: SHLOMO GIORA SHOHAM
BORN: LITHUANIA, 14th APRIL 1929
MARITAL STATUS: MARRIED, ONE SON, ONE DAUGHTER
Winner of the Israel Prize in Criminology Research for 2003
EDUCATION:
Elementary and Secondary Schools, in Palestine
University of London, England, Matriculation, 1947
Jerusalem Law Classes, 1947 (interrupted by military service)
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, School of Law: 1950-1953: LL.M.
University of Cambridge, England, Institute of Criminology, 1958-1959: Research Student
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, School of Law, 1960: LL.D. in Law and Criminology
ACADEMIC POSITIONS;
1961 Senior Lecturer and Director, Institute of Criminology, Bar Ilan University
1963 Research Associate, Ohio State University
1965 Associate Professor of Criminology, Bar Ilan University
Associate Professor of Criminology, Tel-Aviv University
1968/9 Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Pennsylvania University
1969 Director, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Law, Tel-Aviv University
1970 Professor of Criminology and Penology, Senior Police Officers’
Academy, Israel.
1973 Professor, Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
1988/9 Visiting Professor, Harvard University
1989/90 Visiting Professor, Sorbonne, Paris: Ecole Pratioque des Hautes Etudes
Administrateur de la Foundation Europeane des Sciences, des Arts et de la Culture
1990/91 Research and Teaching, Sorbonne, Paris
1991/2 Visiting Professor, Oxford University, Oxford Center for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1955/8 Assistant District Attorney of Jerusalem, and Assistant to Israel’s Attorney General
1964 Co-representative of Israel, with Supreme Court Justice Haim Cohen, at The International Congress of Comparative Law, Birmingham, England
Participant, International Study Group of Culture Factors of Delinquency, under the auspices of World Health Organization, Topeka, Kansas
1969 Jury Member, Denis Carrol International Award
Representative of Israel, at meeting of the Directors of Criminological Research Institutes at Council of Europe, Strasbourg
1970 International Editor, Excerpta Criminologia
Member, of Board of Directors, International Society of Criminology
Member, Permanent Governmental Commission, Administration of Criminal Justice, Israel
1975 Recipient, Presidential Citation, outstanding achievement in field of criminology, American Society of Criminology, Toronto
Member Australian Society of Forensic Sciences
1980 Elected to the Board of Directors, International Society of Criminology
Member, Scientific Commission, International Center of Sociological, Penal and Penitentiary Research, Messina, Italy
1981 Medal of Honor presented by the Prime Minister of France for contribution to International Criminology
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Institute of Criminology and Penology and Penitentiary Research and Studies, Messina
Member, Board of Directors Research Committee for the Sociology of Deviance and Social Control, International Sociological Association
Chairman, Committee for the Classification of Prisoners in Israel
Managing Editor, Monograph Series on Alienation, International Sociological Association
1988 Board member, research committee, International Sociological Association
Louvain, University, Belgium, Doctoral Thesis, The Mytho-Empiricism of S.Giora Shoham, by Jean Falisse
University of Milwaukee, Lecture by Mark Sies on The Criminology of S. Giora Shoham
1990 Editor, Orexis series - an Interdisciplinary Thought, L’Age d’Homme Publishing House, Paris
Recipient, Annual Award of the World Society of Legal Medicine, for Significant Scientific Contribution
1991 Vice President, Research Committee on Alienation, International Sociological Association
Interview, Mytho-Empiricism Synapse. Paris
Board Member, journal on World Black Markets, Corruption & Organized Crime
Annual Judge, Israel’s Theater Group Festival, Tel-Aviv
1994 Interdisciplinary meeting, Malta
1995 Expert witness in murder case: People v. Ronald J. Latham, USA
CONFERENCES
1965 Submitted papers to The Montreal International Congress
1966 Lectures, The Congress of the Societé Abolitioniste Mondiale, Rome
Lectures, The Third International Congress of the Union Mondial des Organismes pour la Sauvegarde de l’Enfance et de l’Adolescence, Evian, France
Representative, International Society of Criminology, Conference of Four International Bodies, Bellagio, Italy
1968 Representative, International Society of Criminology, Conference of Four International Bodies,
1970 Rapporteur General, Congress of International Society of Criminology, Madrid
1980 Lectures, Alienation and Anomie, Messina Workshop
1981 Lectures, Jung Institute
Lecture, The Interdisciplinary Study of Sexual Violence, Lille
Lecture, Drug and Alcohol Involvement among Israeli Youth, Zurich
Chairman of sessions: Literary, Dramatic and Artistic Perspectives on Alienation, and Perceptions of Deviance, World Congress of Sociology, Mexico
Distinguished Visitor and Participant, Seventeenth National Conference of the Australian Psychological Society, Melbourne
Participant, One-day workshop, The Current Status of Criminological Theory, Australian Institute of Criminology
Lectures on Eve, Casanova and Don Juan: Love as Bait - a Mytho-Empirical Theory of Sex, and Metaphysical Projections of Personality: Rebellion Creativity and Revelation, C.G.Jung Institute, Zürich
Lecture, Europe and the Middle East, Universite des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg:
Lectures, International Center of Sociological, Penal and Penitentiary Research and Studies, Messina
Lecture, Rebellion, Creativity and Revelation, University of Limoges, Institute for Social Anthropology
Lecture, The Mark of Cain, Universite des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse
1983 Participant, Second International Congress on Drugs and Alcohol, Tel Aviv
Participant, Seminaire: Systemes Penals et Purvoirs, Center de Droit et Cultures, Paris
Lecture, Culture Conflict and Non-Integration of Ethnic Groups in Israel, Annual Meeting of Social Workers Association, Israel
Participant, Scientific Committee of the International Center of Sociological Penal and Penitentiary Research and Studies, Messina
Participant, Sixth Criminological Colloquium - Historical Research on Crime and Criminal Justice, Strasbourg
Lecture, Social Politics and the Reduction in the Margin of Deviation, International Study Seminar, Messina
1984 Lecture, The Decline, Colloque d’Athenes, Athens
Lecture, the Mark of Cain, Council of Europe
Lectures, Personality and Deviance and the Socio-Biology of Love,
The Max Planck Institute, Freiburg
Lecture, Stigma and Social Deviance, Heidelberg University
Lecture, Types of Culture, Technology and Crime, at Conference on Technological and Non-Technological Cultures as Related to Crime and Deviance, International Center of Sociological Penal and Penitentiary Research and Studies, Messina
Lecture, Orwell, Man, State and Society in Question, Colloquy at the Council of Europe, Strasbourg
Lecture, Vengeance, Penalité, Purvoir, Journees d’Etudes University of Paris
1985 Lecture, Violence, RAI International Congress Center, Amsterdam
Keynote address, 5th Symposium on Victimology, World Society of Victimology, Zagreb
Lecture, Dialectical Quests as Metaphysical Projections of the Self, URAM (Ultimate Reality and Meaning Conference), Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Belgium
Lectures, Interdisciplinary Study of Violence, University of Giessen
Lectures, Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah and the Violence of Silence, C.J. Jung Institute, Zürich
Lecture, Interdisciplinary Study of Violence, The Eve Saville Memorial Lecture on Interdisciplinary Study of Delinquency, King’s College, London, University of London
Lecture, Personality and Deviance, University of Indiana, Bloomington
Lectures, The Many Faces of Violence and Personality, University of Wisconsin at Green Bay
Lecture, Metaphysics, Solipsism and Madness, URAM Conference, Leuven, Belgium
Lecture, Anxious and Reckless Drivers, Traffic Academy of San Francisco
Lecture, Interdisciplinary Study of Violence, Police Academy of San Francisco
1986 Lectures, Myth, Personality and Metaphysics, C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich
Lectures, Personality, Core Dynamics and Deviance, University of Giessen
Lectures, The Mark of Cain, the Stigma Theory of Crime and Deviance, University of Mönchengladbach, Germany
Lectures, Personality Theory and Psychotherapy, Fern-Universität, Hagen
Report, Judaism and European Culture, The Council of Europe
1987 Inaugural Lecture, Inter-Disciplinary Personality Theory, Israel Psychological Association
Lecture, Dynamic Electrophysiological Correlates of Impulsive Violence of Prisoners, Fourth European Congress of EEG and Clinical Neurophysiology
1988 Lecture, Chassidism & Existentialism, Symposium on the Relationship between French Jews and French Culture, Hotel de Ville, Paris
Lecture, the Psychohistory of the Holocaust, The Harvard Center for European Studies
Lecture, the Myth of Evil, Galei Zahal, Israeli Broadcasting Authority
Annual Convention American Society of Criminology, Chicago, The Theories of S.Giora Shoham - a presentation by Mark Sies
Lecture, the Psychohistory of the Holocaust, Hebrew College, Boston
Lecture, The Myth of Tantalus - an Interdisciplinary Personality Theory, William James Hall, Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University
Lecture, the Psychohistory of the Holocaust, California Institute of Integral Studies
1989 Lecture, Stigma & Alienation, International Congress of Sociology, Madrid
1989 Lecture, Methodology of Research in Crime & Deviance, The School of Criminal Justice, North-Eastern University, Boston
Lecture, The Psychohistory of the Holocaust, Martin Buber Institute, Brussels, Belgium
Lecture, Crime & Stigmatization, Institute de Sociology, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Lecture, Valhalla, Calvary and Auschwitz, University of Copenhagen, Institute for Germanic Studies
Lecture, Interdisciplinary Study of Violence, Institute of Criminology, University of Copenhagen
Lecture, Gnosis, Kaballah and Existentialism, Department of Theology, University of Copenhagen
Scientific Adviser & Chairman, Final Session, “Deutsche-Jüdische Symbiose: Fiktion oder Realität”, Hanns Seidel Stiftung, Munich
Lectures, Sources of Violence, an Interdisciplinary View, Stigma & Stereotype and the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexual Violence, Il Congreso Mundial de Medicina Legal, IV Congresso de la Associacion Panamericana de Ciencias Forenses, VI Congreso de la Socieded Columbiana de Midicina Legal Y. Ciencas Forenses
Inaugural Address, Gnosis, Kaballa and Existentialism, Sixth Biennial Conference of the New Zealand Association for the Study of Religions, Hamilton, New Zealand
Lecture, The Interdisciplinary Study of Violence, Max Planck Institute für Ausländisches und Internationales, Strafrecht
Lecture, Personality & Deviance University of Westfalia, F.R.G.
1990 Lecture, L’Existentialism du Martin Buber, Centre d’Etudes du Judaisme Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Lecture, Prostitution and Individual Stigma, University Libre de Bruxelles
Lecture, Buber und Canetti, 2nd Internationale Symposium über Canetti’s “Marse und Macht, Vienna, Austria
Keynote Lecture, The Subjective Perception of Time, Symposium on “Consciousness and Time” organized by IBM Israel
Lecture, Interdisciplinary Study of Violence, Institute de Medicine Legale, University de Lille
Papers, Normative Sacrifice and Gnosis Kaballa and Existentialism and the Predicament of Man, XII World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Madrid, Spain
Organizer, Symposium on “Dealiennation and Authenticity” Messina, Italy
Lecture, An Interdisciplinary Approach to Violence, Faculty of Medicine, Bordeaux, France
Inaugural Address. I. The Interdisciplinary Research on Violence. II. The Mark of Cain, III. Anxious and Reckless Drivers, World Congress of Legal Medicine of Bogota, Columbia
Lecture, Lurianic Kabbalah, Institute Raymon Aharon, Paris
Lecture, Gnosis, Kabbalah & Existentialism, University of Rouen, Normandy
Lecture, Mytho-Empiricism and Personality, Laenec Hospital, Paris
1991 Chairman of session, Myth and Alienation, 13th World Congress on Sociology, Bielefeld
Seminars, Center for Postgraduate Center for Criminological Research, Oxford
Seminars, Cosmogony in the Book of Genesis and Sources of Jewish Religion, Oxford Center for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, Oxford
Opening Address, Personality and Existentialism, Symposium on Philosophy and Psychology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan
Seminar, The Interdisciplinary Study of Violence, Oxford Center for Criminological Research
Lecture, Historical Perspective of the relationship between Arabs and Europeans, Symposium on the Relationship between Arab and European Culture, Council of Europe, Strasbourg
1992 Lecture, Influence of Jewish Culture on European Culture, Israeli Embassy, London
Lecture: An Existentialist Treatment of Offenders, Probation Service of Oxfordshire, England
Opening Address, Valhalla, Calvary and Auschwitz, Shorashim
Opening Address: Valhalla, Calvary and Auschwitz, Beit Hatefutsot
Address, Cultural Relationship between Judaic and Hellenic cultures, Manchester University
Participant, Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Ecumenical Meeting of the Three Religions, under the auspices of the Vatican
1994 Seminar, Deviance and Violence, Israel Supreme Court
Chairman, section on Myth and Alienation, XIII World Congress of Sociology, Bielefeld, Germany
Lectures, Relationship between Physics and Kabbalah and Crime and Punishment in Modern Israel, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Inaugural address, interdisciplinary study of violence, Psychiatric Association, Israel
Inaugural address, the Promethean Therapy, Israeli Art Association annual meeting
Chairman of session, Myth and Alienation, 13th World Congress on Sociology, Bielefeld
Participant, International Seminar on Racism and Anti-Semitism, Istanbul
1995 Chairman of seminar, International Conference on Anti-Semitism, Istanbul, Turkey. Also, submitted two articles: Psychological and Cultural Mechanisms of Racism, anti-Semitism as a Paradigm of Racism, and Vahalla, Calvary and Auschwitz, the International Conference on Anti-Semitism, under the auspices of the Council of Europe, in Istanbul
Organizer; Trivialization of Sociology seminar, Messina, Italy
Lecture, Myth and Creativity, European Mozart Foundation, Krakow, Poland
1996 Lecture, The Congress Secretariat International Center of Medicine and Law, Buhramannsdrif, South Africa
1998 Lecture, The Role of Mythogenes in Cultural Evolution, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Vienna, Austria
Lecture, Culture Conflict, Migration, and Crime, 12th International Congress on Criminology, Seoul, North Korea
Lecture, The Medium is the Barrier, 1998 NIC Symposium Intercultural Communication, Göteborg, Sweden
Lecture, Risks and Necessity in the Integration Between Different Peoples in the Mediterranean Area, Rome, Italy
1999 Lecture, The Stigma, The Norm, The Crime, Sturzo Institute of Sociology, La Sapienza
Keynote speaker, International Conference of Human Rights and our Responsibilities Towards Future Generations: An Inter-Religious Perspective, International University of the Mediterranean, Valletta, Malta
Chairman, The International Conference on Migration, Culture and Crime, Kibbutz Ma’ale Hahamisha, Israel
2000 Keynote Speaker, Conference for International Collaboration between Mediterranean Countries, Malta
Keynote Speaker, International Congress on Juidicial Anthropology Limoge, France
Lecture, the dialogica philosophy as a basis for the therapeutic process Pompidou Hospital, Paris
2001 Keynote Speaker, conference on Cultural Collaboration of Mediterranean Cultures, Malta
Keynote Speaker, Stocktaking for the Third Millennium, The Council of Europe
Lectures, Personality, Deviance and Mytho–Empiricism, University Poirtie, France
Moderator and General Reporter, International Round Table on European Identity, The Council of Europe Strasbourg
Lecture, First Generation Delinquents Second Generation Politicians: The story of Moroccan Immigration to Israel, The University of Malta
Lectures, University of Kalamazoo, Michigan
Lecture, Conference on Art and Existentialism, Louisiana, USA
Lecture, The International Forum Of Culture Conflict, Acculturation and Crime, International Conference on Migration and Crime, Trier
2002 Lectures, Graduation ceremony of the students in the Program in Human Rights, University of Malta
2003 Colloquium, Jean Genet on the Contemporary Stage, Genet’s New Trinity: Theft, Betrayal and Homosexuality, The Hebrew University – Department of Theatre Studies
Chairperson and keynote lecture: The War of Fundamentalist Islam against Occidental Culture, Third International Conference of Culture Conflict, Migration and Crime / Terrorism, Istanbul, Turkey
2004 Organizer, David Bohm – Physicist, Philosopher and Humanist – interdisciplinary discussions on scientific progress and the future of mankind, Venice International University Tentative date- November 2004
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Visiting Scholar for the months of July, August (invited)
PRESENT AFFILIATIONS
Criminological Advisor, Ministries of Justice and Internal Security (Israel)
Chairman, International Organizing Committee for Phd’s in the Mediterranean,
Human Rights Program (University of Malta)
Director, the diploma program in criminal justice, to serve as a basis for an M.A., Tel Aviv University
Editor, Israeli Studies in Criminology
Executive Editor, series on Alienation of International Sociological Association
Fellow, American Society of Criminology
Honorary Fellow, Australian Forensic Association
Member, Board of Directors, International Research Commission on Alienation of the International Sociological Association
Member, Board of Directors, International Society of Criminology
Member, Board of Governors, The Foundation for International Studies at the University of Malta, Malta
Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Existential Psychology and Psychotherapy
Member, executive board, International Forum of Migration, Culture Conflict and Crime.
Member, Organizing Commission of the Athens Colloquy
Member, Scientific Commission of International Center for Research in Sociology and Penal Matters, Messina
MILITARY EXPERIENCE
1947 Israel War of Liberation: Captured by Jordanian Army, Prisoner of War, released 1949