John Braithwaite - Biography

John Braithwaite is an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Founder of RegNet (the Regulatory Institutions Network) at the Australian National University .

He is embarked upon a 20-year comparative project on Peacebuilding Compared with Hilary Charlesworth, Valerie Braithwaite and Kate Macfarlane. In the past he has worked on a variety of areas of business regulation and on the crime problem. His best known work is on the ideas of responsive regulation and restorative justice.

John Braithwaite has been active in social movement politics around these and other ideas for 40 years in Australia and internationally. Braithwaite’s books have won a number of prizes in the US and Europe from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the American Sociological Association, the Law and Society Association, the American Society of Criminology, the Socio-Legal Studies Association, the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas for Improving World Order (for Global Business Regulation with Peter Drahos) and the inaugural Stockholm Prize for Criminology. His most recent award was an Honourary Doctorate at K. U. Leuven (Belgium). His most recent book is Regulatory Capitalism: How it works, ideas for making it work better (2008).

New Publications

Reinventing Policing Through the Prism of the Colonial Kiap

S.Dinnen and J.Braithwaite, Community Policing in Three Dimensions Conference, 12-14 December 2007, The Australian National University, Canberra.

Regulating Aged Care: Ritualism and the New Pyramid

by John Braithwaite, Toni Makai, Valerie Braithwaite

Volume 1, Issue 1, 2, 3 & Now 4 - Available Free On-line!

Edited by: John Braithwaite, Garry Coglianese & David Levi-Faur

Building Legitimacy Through Restorative Justice

J. Braithwaite in T. Tyler (ed) Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: International Perspectives, 2007, pp 146-162.

‘They have given us a fascinating case study here, rich in detail, and masterfully interpreted against the backdrop of evolving regulatory strategy. It is rare indeed to find this depth of analysis made accessible, laced throughout with humanity, compassion, and humor.’
– Malcolm Sparrow, Harvard University, US

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Encourage Restorative Justice

J. Braithwaite, Criminology and Public Policy, 6 (4), 2007, 689-696.