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Natti Ronel


Professor Natti Ronel is an Israeli clinical criminologist, specializing in the treatment of addictions, violence and victimization, served as Head of the Criminology Department at Bar-Ilan University (2013–2016). Ronel is the theorist and founder of Positive Criminology, Positive Victimology and of the "Graceway" for self-change and formal therapy (also known as Grace Therapy). He is currently working on the development of Spiritual Criminology, which is an innovative approach to criminology based on a vast field of knowledge derived from different spiritual traditions. Referring to a spiritual perspective, this novel approach generates a synthesis of contemporary criminological knowledge. Ronel also works privately with individuals suffering from any type of addiction, addicts’ families, people with criminal background, youth in distress, individuals suffering from violence, victims of violence and injury, as well as people seeking for spiritual change in their lives.

Natti Ronel was born in 1958 in the city of Holon, Israel. He graduated from the Haim Kugel High School’s science program with honors (1976). He started his undergraduate studies in the department of psychology and a special program for outstanding students at the University of Haifa and obtained his B.A. in Psychology and Humanities from the special program for outstanding undergraduates at Tel-Aviv University (1984). Following a 2-year journey abroad, mostly in Asia, he enrolled for a direct PhD program in the Institute for Criminology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem under the supervision of renowned criminologist and recipient of the Israel Prize, Professor Menachem Amir (1995). He did his post-doctoral research at the Tel-Aviv University Bob Shapell School of Social Work, under the supervision of Professor Meir Teichman (1997). During his graduate and postgraduate studies he was awarded numerous scholarships for his achievements.


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