J. Braithwaite (2022) ‘Putin’s war: restorative reflections‘ The International Journal of Restorative Justice. DOI: 10.5553/TIJRJ.000117
J. Braithwaite, H. Hojabrosadati & M. Miranda (2021) ‘Restorative Nodes of Governance in the Anthropocene: Iran’s Kashaf River’ Law & Policy. doi: 10.1111/lapo.12173
J. Braithwaite […]
Restorative justive restores victims, restores perpetrators and restores communities. It is about the idea that because crime hurts, justice should heal. Restorative justice is partly about the aim that justice processes repair the harm done through domination, whether that is the domination of crime, of war or of school bullying. Because crime and […]
Mary Ivec, who has a professional background as a social worker, was last month elected by the […]
Asia and the Pacific embrace the regions of greatest cultural and linguistic diversity in the world. Asia’s most important contribution to global criminology is therefore in opening its eyes to completely new ways of seeing, as opposed to adjusting, testing, or revising western theories in light of eastern experience. Restorative justice innovation provides good examples […]
My co-author and former PhD student, Ray Nickson, who is now Criminal Justice Program Director in the Peace and Conflict Studies Centre of Fresno Pacific University sent me this inspiring news story:
Well done 17 year old Sam, well done Bullard High School and Fresno Pacific for such […]
There is a growing problem of ‘rape culture’ on the campus of the Australian National University. There have been new dimensions of this problem in recent years such as a Facebook group titled ‘ANU Stalkerspace’ which has been the particularly public host of some unpleasant public discussion about women and minorities. The Rape Crisis Centre […]
Some […]
(I wrote this piece for RegBlog, where it was published on 27 Feb, 2017)
An important new Brookings book edited by Cary Coglianese has landed: Achieving Regulatory Excellence.
The book asks […]
John recently co-wrote a paper with Kirsty Campbell (St Andrews University) and Derick Wilson (Ulster University) called Ending residual paramilitary domination in Northern Ireland? Restorative economic and social inclusion strategies.
The paper considers options for dismantling residual pockets of paramilitary domination and draws insights from restorative justice and complexity theory. It places Northern Ireland as […]
Over nine days in late May-June 2016, Derick Wilson, Kirsty Campbell and John Braithwaite had thirty meetings with diverse public, political, civic and community organisations in Belfast, Dublin, Derry and Ballycastle. These meetings were hosted by two reconciliation charities, the Understanding Conflict Trust and the Corrymeela Community on the theme of ‘The Politics of Hope and […]