"Braithwaite's new book is important. It integrates legalistic ideas about deterrence with sociological and social psychological ideas about why people commit delinquencies and crimes. It won't be the last word on crime causation but it will set scholars and researchers on the right path to enunciating the last word. I predict that Crime, shame and reintegration will become an important patern-setting document in criminology."

-- Donald R. Cressey, late Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Submitted by Publisher, March, 2001

A contribution to general criminological theory is supplied by this study's claim that the key to why some societies have higher crime rates than others lies in the way different cultures shame wrongdoing.