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Crime, Shame and Reintegration Book

Braithwaite argues that shame can be used as a constructive way to help criminals. Crime, Shame and Reintegration is a contribution to general criminological theory. Its approach is as relevant to professional burglary as to episodic delinquency...Read More

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  • Book Description

    A contribution to general criminological theory is supplied by this study's claim that the key to why some societies have higher crime rates than others lies in the way different cultures "shame" wrongdoing.

  • Product Description

    This book, a contribution to general criminological theory, suggests that the key to why some societies have higher crime rates than others lies in the way different cultures go about the social process of shaming wrongdoers. 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 extraordinarily powerful, efficient, and just form of social control.

  • 0521356687
  • 9780521356688
  • John Braithwaite
  • 23 March 1989
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 238
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