Restorative Justice: Australian Criminologist John Braithwaite

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Australian criminologist John Braithwaite influences restorative justice principles in the United States with his theory of reintegrative shaming. Braithwaite believes shaming is the ultimate deterrent but strongly differentiates between stigmatizing shaming and shaming that reintegrates the offender back into an accepting society (Braithwaite, 1989, pp. 44-54).
The foundation for the underlying concepts of restorative justice are from Howard Becker, credited with the development of Labeling Theory in 1963. Braithwaite stemmed from Howard Becker’s idea that an individual after being caught by an agency of social control for doing a deviant act becomes labeled and that individual begins to internalize the societal given deviant status (Rohall, Milkie, & Lucas, 2014, pp. 194-195). This deviant status or label becomes part of the individual’s master status, the most upper echelon of the hierarchical characteristics of his self-identity (Rohall, Milkie, & Lucas, 2014, pp. 122-124). …show more content…

It implements small government solutions to social problems and is typically a liberal view. Liberals are concerned with individual rights when entering the criminal justice system and want little government activity. Restorative justice gives them this control. Government activity is limited to only restoring peace if needed and the rights of the offender and victim are in the hands of the community. Liberals want to use government resources to assist the victim and offender and provide them with the needs to support their rehabilitation and heeling process, this is all part of restorative

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