Crime, Shame and Reintegration

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.

• A General Theory of Crime
• Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points through Life
• Causes of Delinquency
• Outsiders: Studies In The Sociology Of Deviance
• Crime and Public Policy
• The Psychology of Emotion in Restorative Practice: How Affect Script Psychology Explains How and Why Restorative Practice Works
• Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70
• Crime and the American Dream (Wadsworth Series in Criminological Theory)
• Social Deviance: Readings in Theory and Research
• Taking Stock: The Status of Criminological Theory (Advances in Criminological Theory)