Menachem Amir

Menachem Amir (; 20 July 1930 – 21 May 2015) was an Israeli criminologist. He spent most of his career as a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was the Benjamin Berger Chair Professor of Criminology until he retired in 1999. Amir received the Israel Prize from the Israeli government in 2003 for his work, one of the first two criminologists to do so alongside Shlomo Giora Shoham.

Work Amir is best-known for his work on rape, including his article "Victim Precipitated Forcible Rape" (1968), and his first book Patterns in Forcible Rape (1971). His work was the first sociological study on the phenomenon of rape.

Some American feminists utilized Amir's work in their anti-rape activism.

Amir also worked on topics concerning juvenile delinquents, elderly victims of crime, and international organized crime.