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.[4]
Career
As a criminologist, he is particularly interested in the role of
restorative justice, shame management and reintegration in crime prevention.
His book Crime, Shame and Reintegration (1989)[5] demonstrated that current criminal justice practice tends to stigmatize offenders, making the crime problem worse. Braithwaite argues that
restorative justice enables both offenders and citizens, by way of mediation, to repair the social harm caused by crime. He has also worked with
Philip Pettit on the application of republican theory to criminal law and regulation.
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.[6]
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.[7]
^Doern, Bruce; Prince, Michael J.; Schultz, Richard J. (2014). Rules and Unruliness: Canadian Regulatory Democracy, Governance, Capitalism, and Welfarism. Montreal and Kingston: Mcgill-Queen's University Press.
ISBN978-0773543324.
^J. Braithwaite. Crime, Shame and Reintegration (Cambridge University Press: 1989)
^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