John Braithwaite (born 30 July 1951,

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) is a Distinguished Professor at the

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(ANU). Braithwaite is the recipient of a number of international awards and prizes for his work, including an honorary doctorate at KU Leuven (2008),John Braithwaite, Honorary Doctorate, http://www.law.kuleuven.be/linc/english/honorarydoctoratebraithwaite.html the

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with

Peter Drahos Professor Peter Drahos is an Australian academic and researcher specializing in the areas of intellectual property and global business regulation amongst others. He is the Director of the Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development and was f ...

for Ideas Improving World Order (2004), and the Prix Emile Durkheim, International Society of Criminology, for lifetime contributions to criminology (2005). In 2024 he was awarded the

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for "Restorative Justice". His writings on regulatory capitalism have influenced regulatory scholars in other countries, such as Canadian political scientists G. Bruce Doern, Michael J. Prince and Richard Shultz.

Career

As a criminologist, he is particularly interested in the role of

restorative justice Restorative justice is a community-based approach to justice that aims to repair the harm done to victims, offenders and communities. In doing so, restorative justice practitioners work to ensure that offenders take responsibility for their ac ...

, 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

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 Noel Pettit (born 1945) is an Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is the Laurance Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and also Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Aust ...

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

to many areas of business regulation, health care and aged care. He is the founder of th
School of Regulation and Global Governance
(RegNet, formerly the Regulatory Institutions Network), a large interdisciplinary research group within the College of Asia and the Pacific at the

, working on complex issues of regulation and governance. He is a former

Australian Research Council The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the primary non-medical research funding agency of the Australian Government, distributing more than in grants each year. The Council was established by the ''Australian Research Council Act 2001'', ...

(ARC) Federation Fellow at RegNet. He is further exploring ideas related to 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. One of his recent books, ''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.J. Braithwaite, V. Braithwaite, M.Cookson & L. Dunn (2010). ''Anomie and Violence: Non-truth and Reconciliation in Indonesian Peacebuilding'', Canberra: ANU E Press; accessible online at http://epress.anu.edu.au/anomie_citation.html

Works

*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 (2005). ''Markets in Vice, Markets in Virtue'', Sydney and New York, Federation Press and Oxford University Press. *J. Braithwaite (2002)
''Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation''
New York: Oxford University Press. *P. Drahos and J. Braithwaite (2002).''Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy'' New York: Routledge. *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 (2000). ''Regulation, Crime, Freedom'', Aldershot, Ashgate *B. Fisse & J. Braithwaite (1993). ''Corporations, Crime and Accountability'', Cambridge University Press. *I. Ayres & J. Braithwaite (1992) ''Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate'', Oxford University Press. *J. Braithwaite & P. Pettit (1990). ''Not Just Deserts: A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice'', Oxford University Press. *J. Braithwaite (1989)
''Crime, Shame and Reintegration,''
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *J. Braithwaite (1986). ''Of Manners Gentle: Enforcement Strategies of Australian Business Regulatory Agencies'', Melbourne, Oxford University Press. *J. Braithwaite (1985). ''To Punish or Persuade: Enforcement of Coal Mine Safety'', Albany, State University of New York Press. *J. Braithwaite & P. Grabosky (1985). ''Occupational Health and Safety Enforcement in Australia'', Canberra, Australian Institute of Criminology. *J. Braithwaite (1984). '' Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry'', London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. *B. Fisse & J. Braithwaite (1983). ''The Impact of Publicity on Corporate Offenders'', Albany, State University of New York Press. *J. Braithwaite (1980). ''Prisons, Education and Work'', Canberra and Brisbane, University of Queensland Press/Australian Institute of Criminology. *J. Braithwaite (1979). ''Inequality, Crime, and Public Policy'', London and Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Braithwaite, John Academic staff of the Australian National University Australian National University alumni Australian criminologists Living people 1951 births Winners of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology