Gali Perry is a lecturer at the Institute of Criminology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her PhD from the Hebrew University in 2016, and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on political violence, and the policing of protest, political violence and terrorism. Gali is the recipient of the 2017 Golda Meir fellowship for early-career scholars and the 2019 Ellis and Alma Birk Prize in Law.
Education
2011 – 2016 Ph.D., Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2004 – 2006 M.A., Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University. Magna cum laude.
2000 – 2003 B.A., Department of Psychology, the Open University, Tel-Aviv. Magna cum laude.
Representative Publications
Perry, G., Jonathan-Zamir, T., and Weisburd, D. (2017). The Effect of Paramilitary Protest Policing on Protestors’ Trust in the Police: The Case of the “Occupy Israel” Movement. Law and Society Review, 51(3), 602-634.
Perry, G, Wikström, P.O.H., and Roman, G.D. (2018). Differentiating right-wing extremism from potential for violent extremism: The role of criminogenic exposure. International Journal of Developmental Science, 12(1-2), 103-113.Perry, S., Hasisi, B., and Perry, G. (2019). Lone terrorists: A study of run-over attacks in Israel. European Journal of Criminology, 16(1), 102-123.
Perry, G., and Jonathan-Zamir, T., (2020). Expectations, Effectiveness, Trust, and Cooperation: Public Attitudes toward the Israel Police During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 14(4), 1073–1091.
Hasisi, B., Margalioth Y., Jonathan-Zamir T., Perry G., Zamir R., and Haviv N. (2020). Mitigating the Consequences of Invasive Security Practices: A Quasi-Experiment in an International Airport. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 17(4), 611-628.
Perry, G., and Hasisi, B. (2020). Closing the Gap: Promoting Suspect Communities’ Cooperation with Airport Security. Terrorism and Political Violence, 32(6), 1141-1160.
Perry, G. (2021). Promoting protesters’ compliance: The effect of general perceptions of the police vs. police actions. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 15(2), 1245-1261.
Jonathan-Zamir, T., Perry, G., and Weisburd, D. (2021). Illuminating the Concept of Community (Group)-Level Procedural Justice: A Qualitative Analysis of Protestors’ Group-Level Experiences with the Police. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 48(6), 791-809.
Perry G., Jonathan-Zamir, T., and Factor R. (2022). The Long-Term Effects of Policing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Public Attitudes Toward the Police in the ‘New Normal.’ Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. 16(1), 167-187. Article chosen as a research brief by the American Society of Evidence Based Policing, Oct 2022.
Jonathan-Zamir, T., Perry, G. and Willis, J. (2023). Ethical Perspectives and Police Science: Using Social Contract Theory as an Analytical Framework for Evaluating Police Legitimacy. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 17, paad056.
Weisburd, D. Jonathan-Zamir, T. Perry, G. and Hasisi, B. (2023). The Future of Evidence-Based Policing. Cambridge University Press.
12. Perry, G. (2024). Beyond Experiments: Is There a Subjective Causal Relationship Between PJ and Police Legitimacy?. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 18, paad068, https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paad.
Jonathan-Zamir, T., Factor R. and Perry G., (2024). The Roles of Police-Related Versus Non Police-Related Considerations in Shaping Diffused Support for the Police: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Annals of Criminology, 62(1), 197-225.
Jonathan-Zamir, T., Perry, G., Kaplan-Damary, N., & Weisburd, D. (2024). Police compliance with the social contract as an antecedent of police legitimacy, of satisfaction with the police, and of willingness to obey: findings from a two-stage vignette experiment. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 1-36.
Perry, G. and Dagan, N. (2025). The rule of law, law enforcement, and law obedience: an empirical socio-legal study. Bar Ilan Law Review, 35(3).