Dr. Hila Avieli

Dr. Hila Avieli is a researcher and a lecturer in the Department of Criminology at Ariel University, Israel, and is currently a visiting scholar at the Center on Violence and Recovery at NYU for the 2019-2020 academic year. Her research interests are domestic violence, elder abuse, criminology and aging, and disability studies. 
Dr. Avieli has both a Ph.D. in Criminology and an M.S.W. which enabled her to acquire field experience as a clinical social worker in a prison psychiatric ward. She is a member of the Israeli Criminological Association and serves as an official reviewer of Israeli prisons. In addition, Dr. Avieli taught at the School of Criminology at Haifa University and is currently a member of the Minerva Center on Intersectionality in Aging.