Reintegrative Shaming Theory Essay

Question 2 Addressing Moffitt’s developmental theory known as taxonomy, recognizing the year it was proposed in is important which happened in 1993. Next, to be discussed about the theory taxonomy is how it is broken down into two main groups the first consists of adolescence-limited offenders and then the second more serious group are life-course-persistent offenders. These two groups revolve around Moffitt’s main idea on the types of offenders out there. Adolescence-limited offenders are people who are assumed to grow out of it. Additionally, they are only offenders as teenagers and young adults as well as the cause no major harm and is seen as a normal part of growing up. While life-course-persistent offenders that make up around 4-8% of …show more content…
Reintegrative shaming was first introduced in 1989, in Braithwaite’s book named Crime, Shame, and Reintegration. Most of his theory was impacted by Japan and their system of shaming and its effect on crime. Which his theory received a lot of evidence from at their beginning whereas recently is has received little to no evidence to support it. Some of its limitations is how Braithwaite did not clearly define the different types of shaming and its affects, and the impact of different emotion on criminal offenders. Since his theory has mainly been seen in Japan and its society it is highly unlikely to work in the United States due to its stigmatizing affects and incarceration rate. A societal change would need to be done which would take probably decades to do. While Japan has been publicly shaming and reintegrating these offenders into society without stigmatization since before World War II. The theory is unique to criminology due to how it is not strictly limited to the United States in its studies and implementations of the theory (Tibbets,