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Name: InbalLam                                                                                                                     Date:06.06.23

CURRICULUM VITAE

1.Personal Details

PermanentHome Address: Soroka Moshe 21, Haifa

HomeTelephone Number:

OfficeTelephone Number:

CellularPhone:0584880273

ElectronicAddress: Inballam@gmail.com,inball@wgalil.ac.il

2.     Higher education

A.    Undergraduateand Graduate Studies

3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education

4. Offices in Academic Administration

The head of the cyber specialization in the department ofCriminology, Western Galilee College

6. Participation in Scholarly Conferences

a.   Active Participation

b. Organization of Conferences or Sessions

7. Invited Lectures\ Colloquium Talks

8.Research Grants

a.Grants Awarded

9.Teaching

1. Courses Taught in Recent Years

10.  Professional Experience

2013 – present

The Hebrew Realischool – teaching Sociology and Mass Media for high school students, supervisor of student`s research works, home teacher for10th grade students

2014 – present

A member in a team ofmatriculation exam writers in Mass Media - Ministry of Education

A. Ph.D. Dissertation

Perceptional and Behavioral Risk Factors Associated with theVictimization of Personal

Internet Users by Cybercrime in Israel: A Gender-SpecificAnalysis

Supervised by: Prof. Gustavo Mesch

University of Haifa

Faculty of Social sciences

Department of Sociology

2019, pp. 153

Published

Lam, I., & Mesch, G. (2017).Gender differences in the correlation between awareness of cybercrime andinvolvement in risky online activities. Megamot, 52(2), 77-108. (Hebrew)(peer reviewed manuscript)

OtherWorks Connected with my Scholarly Field

Co– founder (with Dr. Hagit Turjeman) of the cybercrime internshipprogram at the Western Galileecollege

Summaryof my Activities and Future Plans

My PhD thesis is comprised of threearticles dealing with various issues associated with the

vulnerability of personal Internetusers in Israel to the following cybercrimes: malware, identity theft, andeconomic fraud. This study examines differences in the risk factors for cybervictimization between various socio-demographic groups, focusing specificallyon gender differences. The research presented in these articles has severalinterrelated goals aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding ofcybercrime-related risk factors faced by Internet users. 

The study presented in the firstpaper deals with gender differences in the correlation between awareness ofcybercrime and involvement in risky online activities. The goals of the firststudy were to add to the knowledge about the correlation between awareness ofcybercrime and behavior patterns in cyberspace, and examine whether it isaffected by gender. This research relies on the conceptual ideas oflifestyle-routine activities theory. This study joins previous studies thatexamined the validity of this theory over cyberspace, and to address some ofthe limitations of existing research.

The study presented in the secondarticle deals with the similarities and differences between men and women insimilar age groups in the extent of involvement in risky behaviors incyberspace. The main objective of this study is toexamine the interaction between age and gender with involvementin risky online activities, and to examine the role of mediating factors thatunderline this interaction. This study also relies on the conceptual ideas oflifestyle – routine activity theory, focusing on patterns of behavior thatincrease the risk of cyber-attack. To identify gender-based and age-relateddifferences in the degree of involvement in risky online activities, the study combined two approaches: the sociology of gender andthe developmental-age approaches.

The study presented in the thirdarticle deals with gender differences in the relationship between online riskbehaviors and victims of cybercrime. This article is based on a longitudinalstudy among private Internet users in Israel. This study had two mainobjectives: to investigate the relationship between online risk behaviors atone point in time and victims of cybercrime at a later point, and to examinewhether it is affected by gender. As in the previous two studies, this study isalso based on the lifestyle theory - routine activities theory. The studyexamined the central premise of this theory, according to which certainbehavior patterns in cyberspace are linked to victims of cybercrime. The studyalso re-examines this relationship longitudinally. To the best of my knowledge,this is the first study conducted in Israel on this issue, and the findingsprovide information on the extent of the vulnerability of private Internetusers in Israel to cybercrime.

In the last three years I devoted my time to teaching courses that are related to subjectof my thesis. In recent months I've been working on articles dealing with differentaspects of sexual offenses in cyber space. Some of the questionsincluded in my research are:

1. Perception of the severity of the offence in cyber space compared to the perception of the severity of the offence in the terrestrial sphere

2. Differencesin the levels of vulnerability to sexual offences in the terrestrial spherecompared to cyber space

3. The correlationbetween prior sexual offences' victimization and perceptions of crime severity (acomparison: terrestrial vs. cyber sphere)

4. The Gendere context of the perception of severity in terrestrial sphere and in cyber sphere

5. Fear of sexualassault crimes: similarities and differences between physical and online sphere

These are allresearch projects currently in progress, which hopefully will be published inthe near future

Articles in progress

-Similaritiesand differences between men and women in similar age groups in the extent ofinvolvement in risky behaviors in cyberspace. Lam Inbal and Mesch Gustavo

-Genderdifferences in the relationship between online risk behaviors and victims ofcybercrime. A longitudinal study among privateInternet users in Israel. Lam Inbal and Mesch Gustavo