John Braithwaite (born 30 July 1951, Ipswich) is a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University (ANU).
[1] Braithwaite is the recipient of a number of international awards and prizes for his work, including an honorary doctorate at KU Leuven (2008),[2] the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award with Peter Drahos for Ideas Improving World Order (2004),[3] and the Prix Emile Durkheim, International Society of Criminology, for lifetime contributions to criminology (2005).
[5] As a criminologist, he is particularly interested in the role of restorative justice, shame management and reintegration in crime prevention.
Braithwaite argues that restorative justice enables both offenders and citizens, by way of mediation, to repair the social harm caused by crime.
[7] One of his recent books, Anomie and Violence: Non-truth and Reconciliation in Indonesian Peacebuilding, found that peacebuilding in Papua, Maluku and North Maluku, Central Sulawesi, West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan, and Aceh was largely achieved through non-truth and reconciliation.