John Braithwaite CRIME, SHAME AND REINTEGRATION

1. What is reintegrative shaming? How specifically is it different from disintegrative shaming?

2. What types of crime are his outcome focus?

3. For what types of crimes do YOU think this approach will be most effective? Why?

4. In what types of society should reintregrative shaming work most effectively?

5. Can you give examples of reintegrative shaming rituals?

6. Can you state simply how the theory of reintegrative shaming either uses or integrates or improves upon each of the following: the labeling perspective, subcultural theory, learning theory, and control theory?

7. What is the family model?

8. Why is the recent historical uncoupling of shaming and punishment important?

9. How does shaming effect social control?

10. How is the shaming process different in the community compared to the family?

11. Why is community-wide shaming needed?

12. How does his theory link micro and macro level dynamics? (Maybe I should say micro, meso, and macro.)

13. What are communitarian societies? Are we one? Can you give an example of one? At what level should we classify societies? Countries? Neighborhoods? Towns? Cities?

14. What is interdependency? How is this different from Hirschi's bonds? Or L&S's attachments?

15. Why does cultural heterogeneity NOT pose a problem for the theory?

16. Which method of research, of those reviewed, do you think would work best for testing the theory and why?

17. Is JB's theory more about explaining white collar crime or suggesting ways to prevent it or both?

18. How well do you think this theory "fits" white collar crime? Compared to other theories we have encountered so far?

19. How can the power of shaming go wrong?

20. In what ways is shaming better than physical punishment? Worse?

21. What do you think are the most important policy implications? Why?