Crime, Shame and Reintegration

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Cambridge University Press, 23 mars 1989 - 226 pages
Crime, Shame and Reintegration is a contribution to general criminological theory. Its approach is as relevant to professional burglary as to episodic delinquency or white collar crime. Braithwaite argues that some societies have higher crime rates than others because of their different processes of shaming wrongdoing. Shaming can be counterproductive, making crime problems worse. But when shaming is done within a cultural context of respect for the offender, it can be an extraordinarily powerful, efficient and just form of social control. Braithwaite identifies the social conditions for such successful shaming. If his theory is right, radically different criminal justice policies are needed - a shift away from punitive social control toward greater emphasis on moralizing social control. This book will be of interest not only to criminologists and sociologists, but to those in law, public administration and politics who are concerned with social policy and social issues.
 

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Whither criminological theory?
1
The dominant theoretical traditions labeling subcultural control opportunity and learning theories
16
Facts a theory of crime ought to fit
44
The family model of the criminal process reintegrative shaming
54
Why and how does shaming work?
69
Social conditions conducive to reintegrative shaming
84
Summary of the theory
98
Testing the theory
108
Reintegrative shaming and white collar crime
124
Shaming and the good society
152
References
187
Index
217
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