Tamar Berenblum
Dr. Tamar Berenblum is the research director of the The Federmann Cyber Security Research Center – Cyber Law Program, Faculty of Law, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Tamar is a Post-Doc Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Netherlands, Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and at The Center for Cyber Law & Policy at the Haifa University (CCLP).
Tamar's research interests include victimology, sociology of knowledge, cybercrime, online social control and digital rights. Her Doctoral thesis at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel titled "The Internet as a Sphere of Social Control" examines the internet both as a sphere for social control and as a tool for such control over deviant activities. The study focuses on mapping and analyzing online social control practices and the applicability of social control theories and policies in the context of cyberspace.
Tamar has research experience both as a project manager and as a Co-PI. She is part of research teams studying deterrence, prevention and regulation of computer crimes, online-shaming, developments in the field of victimology and the effect of language accessibility of the legal proceeding.
In addition, Tamar serves as a public representative in Parole Committees of the Court Administration.
Tamar's Research:
* An Analysis of Human Rights Future Violations using Google Trends
* Juvenile Delinquency Online: Predictors, Prevalence and Possible Solutions
* Pocket Security: Smartphone Cybercrime in the Wild
* Prevention and Mitigation of Computer-Focused Crimes: An Evidence-Based Human-Focused Approach
* Reconstruction and Analysis of an International Hacking Network
* Security Vaccination Ransomware Experiment
* Viral Justice and E-shaming in Social Media Disclosure of Sexual Victimization
Tamar's Blogs:
* Easy Money? What we learned about regulation when we sold our small Bitcoin fortune
