On December 2 at 12 pm, Dr. John Braithwaite will give a paper entitled  Macrocriminology and Cascades.

Abstract

Dr. John Braithwaite's 2022 book Macrocriminology and Freedom argues that crime, war, and domination are cascade phenomena that cascade into one another. The evidence is pretty clear that every incident of mass shooting makes it harder to extinguish cascades to more mass shootings. This is less clear with other kinds of crime. Nevertheless, an important part of my theory is that crime often cascades to more crime and to war; war often cascades to more wars and to crime. War and crime are heavily clustered in space and time. All sciences embrace cascade explanations, but I will argue that criminology has been unusually reluctant to do so, and it has been diminished by this. Happily, there may be ways that crime prevention and war prevention can cascade to prevent cascades of crime-war.

Biography

Dr. John Braithwaite is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor and Founder of  RegNet (the Regulatory Institutions Network), now the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. Since 2004, he has led a 25-year comparative project called Peacebuilding Compared  (recent books: Networked Governance of Freedom and Tyranny (2012, with Hilary Charlesworth and Aderito Soares) and Cascades of Violence: War, Crime and Peacebuilding across South Asia (2018, with Bina D’Costa). He also works on business regulation and crime. His best-known research is on the ideas of responsive regulation (for which the most recent book is Regulatory Capitalism: How it works, ideas for making it work better (2008)) and restorative justice (most useful book, Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation (2002)). Reintegrative shaming has also been an important focus (see Eliza Ahmed, Nathan Harris, John Braithwaite and Valerie Braithwaite (2001) Shame Management through Reintegration). His latest work is Macrocriminology and Freedom (2022). He has been active in the peace movement, the politics of development, the social movement for restorative justice, the labour movement, and the consumer movement, around these and other ideas for 50 years in Australia and internationally. During  50 years of marriage, he has been inspired by his joint projects and love for Valerie Braithwaite and shares passions for music, film, and sport with beloved children and grandchildren.