John Braithwaite (academic)
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John Braithwaite is an academic at the Australian National University
Australian National University
The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...

 (ANU).http://www.anu.edu.au/fellows/jbraithwaite/ As a criminologist, he is particularly interested in the role of restorative justice
Restorative justice
Restorative justice is an approach to justice that focuses on the needs of victims, offenders, as well as the involved community, instead of satisfying abstract legal principles or punishing the offender...

, shame management and reintegration in crime prevention. His book Crime, Shame and Reintegration (1989) demonstrated that current criminal justice practice tends to stigmatize offenders, making the crime problem worse. Braithwaite argues that restorative justice
Restorative justice
Restorative justice is an approach to justice that focuses on the needs of victims, offenders, as well as the involved community, instead of satisfying abstract legal principles or punishing the offender...

 enables both offenders and citizens, by way of mediation, to repair the social harm caused by crime. He has also worked with Philip Pettit
Philip Pettit
Philip Noel Pettit is an Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is Laurence Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University...

 on the application of republican theory to criminal law and regulation.

Braithwaite’s other contributions include the development and application of responsive regulation frameworks and restorative justice
Restorative justice
Restorative justice is an approach to justice that focuses on the needs of victims, offenders, as well as the involved community, instead of satisfying abstract legal principles or punishing the offender...

to many areas of business regulation, health care and aged care. He is the founder of the Regulatory Institutions Network,http://www.regnet.anu.edu.au a large research group within the College of Asia and the Pacifichttp://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/ at the Australian National University, working on regulation and governance issues.

As a current ARC Federation Fellow at the Regulatory Institutions Network (ANU), he is taking forward ideas on restorative justice and
responsive regulation in the 20 year comparative project called Peacebuilding Compared, an ambitious study comparing peacebuilding efforts in 48 conflicts throughout the world.

The first book, Anomie and Violence: Non-truth and Reconciliation in Indonesian Peacebuilding, found that peacebuilding in Papua, Maluku and North Maluku, Central Sulawesi, West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan, and Aceh was largely achieved through non-truth and reconciliation.

Braithwaite is the recipient of a number of international awards and prizes for his work, including an honorary doctorate at KU Leuven, Europe’s leading university in the field of restorative justice (2008); and the Prix Emile Durkheim, International Society of Criminology, for lifetime contributions to criminology (2005).

Further reading

  • J. Braithwaite, V. Braithwaite, M. Cookson & L. Dunn (2010). Anomie and Violence: Non-truth and Reconciliation in Indonesian Peacebuilding, Canberra: ANU E-Press, 2010.
  • J. Braithwaite (2008). Regulatory Capitalism: How it Works, Ideas for Making it Work Better, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  • J. Braithwaite, T. Makai & V. Braithwaite (2007). Regulating Aged Care: Ritualism and the New Pyramid, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  • J. Braithwaite (2002). Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation, New York: Oxford University Press.
  • E. Ahmed, N. Harris, J. Braithwaite & V. Braithwaite (2001). Shame management through Reintegration, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
  • J. Braithwaite & P. Drahos (2001). Global Business Regulation, Cambridge University Press
  • J. Braithwaite & P. Pettit (1990). Not Just Deserts: A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice, Oxford University Press.
  • J. Braithwaite, Crime, Shame and Reintegration, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  • J. Braithwaite (1984). Corporate Crime in the pharmaceutical Industry, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
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