Braithwaite's argument against punitive justice systems and for restorative justice systems
establishes that there are good theoretical and empirical grounds for anticipating that well …

Social learning theory has remained one of the core criminological paradigms over the last
four decades. Although a large body of scholarship has emerged testing various …

" The best organized and most comprehensive theory textbook to use for both graduate and
undergraduate students. It provides historical context to the theories, and the authors make it …

For informal justice to be restorative justice, it has to be about restoring victims, restoring
offenders, and restoring communities as a result of participation of a plurality of …

We specify and test a rational choice model of corporate crime. This model includes
measures of the perceived costs and benefits of corporate crime (for both the firm and the …

Environmental crimes, noncompliance and risks create significant harm to the health of
humans and the natural world. Yet, the field of criminology has historically shown relatively …

Previous studies on tax compliance have focused primarily on the tax‐reporting behavior of
individuals. This study reports results from a randomized field test of the effects of deterrence …

Although often tested empirically on high school samples, differential association and social
control theories have only infrequently been used to explain offending by felons. Based on a …

When regulatory inspectors trust industry, is this trust abused in a way that reduces
regulatory compliance? Or does trust foster the internalization of regulatory objectives by …

This article reports on the first quantitative perceptual deterrence study of corporate (rather
than individual) deterrence. The study is based on interviews with 410 chief executives of …