The Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice is pleased to welcome Dr. John Braithwaite as a Visiting Research Professor for the fall of 2022.  Dr. Braithwaite is a renowned criminologist working on emerging (comparative) justice systems (transitional justice) and genocide, but he is also well-known for his work in restorative justice, regulation, and white-collar (corporate) crime.  

Dr. Braithwaite is as 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.

Dr. Braithwaite 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).

In addition, Dr. Braithwaite has been the recipient of many honors, including the 2004 “Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order”; the Sutherland Award in 2004; the “Prix Emile Durkheim” in 2005, the most important prize from the International Society for Criminology, awarded every four years; the 2006 “Stockholm Prize in Criminology”; and the 2018 Gilbert Geis Award for lifetime contributions to the study of White-Collar and Corporate Crime from the American Society of Criminology. 

"We are excited to welcome Professor Braithwaite to CCJS this year,” said Bobby Brame, CCJS chair.  "As an inaugural Stockholm Prize recipient and distinguished member of the international criminology community, we are fortunate to have someone with John's expertise, discernment, and wisdom in our midst. In addition to teaching our Comparative Criminology seminar this fall, John continues to pursue a vigorous and exciting research program. His latest book, "Macrocriminology and Freedom" (published earlier this year by ANU Press), emphasizes a wide range of issues facing our core institutions as well as traditional and emerging domains of criminological inquiry. We can't wait to see the great work he will do with us here at Maryland. Please join me in welcoming John to UMD this fall!"