Reintegrative Shaming Theory, moral emotions and bullying.

Theories of Restorative Justice *

The growing prominence of restorative justice interventions necessitates a reconceptualization of criminal justice in terms of a new paradigm. The most plausible candidate for this is an empowerment paradigm of justice. However, an overarching theory of criminal justice in these terms needs to be complemented by more fine-grained theoretical explanations of how and why conventional and alternat...

Observations of reintegrative shaming in a mental health court.

This study compares the use of stigmatizing and reintegrative shame - as specified in Braithwaite's Crime, shame and reintegration (1989) - across traditional criminal court and mental health court settings. Items from the Global Observational Ratings Instrument were used to gather data on 87 traditional court cases and 91 mental health court cases, presided over by five different judges. The o...

Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory Braithwaite, John: Reintegrative Shaming Theory

Cyberbullying and traditional bullying in adolescence: Differential roles of moral disengagement, moral emotions, and moral values

The aim of this study was to investigate whether different aspects of morality predict traditional bullying and cyberbullying behaviour in a similar way. Students between 12 and 19 years participated in an online study. They reported on the frequency of different traditional and cyberbullying behaviours and completed self-report measures on moral emotions and moral values. A scenario approach w...

Restorative Justice: Theories and Worries

In this paper I consider a set of theories that increasingly seem to have strong relationships with one another – theories of reintegrative shaming, procedural justice, unacknowledged shame and defiance – that offer an explanation of why restorative justice processes might be effective in reducing crime and accomplishing other kinds of restoration. Some of these theoretical claims are sure to b...