Dr. Beatrice Coscas-Williams is a lecturer in criminology at Western Galilee College and Chair of the Victimology Working Group of the European Society of Criminology. She holds a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne (Paris V) on Victims of Sexual Assault in Israeli Criminal Proceedings and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Bar-Ilan University under the ERC-JCR program, focusing on victims’ participation in plea bargaining and comparative criminal justice.
Her research examines victimology, restorative and transitional justice, coercive control, and the intersections between law, trauma, and collective memory. Dr. Coscas-Williams leads the EVA project on access to justice for French-speaking victims of sexual and domestic abuse and collaborates internationally on projects exploring diversity in justice systems and the legacy of Benjamin Mendelsohn, founder of victimology.