
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 Leah Dunn. 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).
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Where's John?

2008
Canberra 23 Jun-9 Nov
St. Louis 10-17 Nov
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