Positive Criminology
Definition
A perspective, developed by Natti Ronel and Ety Elisha from 2011, that studies protective and prosocial forces, rather than only risk factors, as drivers of desistance from crime.
Related terms
- Communitarianism
- A society's density of interlocking obligations and mutual concern, which Braithwaite argues determines whether shame is available as an effective informal control...
- Desistance
- The process by which an individual stops offending, usually gradual rather than a single event, and typically tied to changes in routine,...
- Encounters with Goodness
- Ronel and Elisha's term for moments, relationships, or experiences of unearned kindness and moral regard that a person carries forward as a...
- Reintegrative Shaming
- Disapproval of a wrongful act that is expressed within relationships of respect for the offender, followed by gestures of forgiveness and reacceptance...
- Stigmatic Shaming
- Shaming that labels the offender rather than the act, degrades the person, and offers no ceremony of reacceptance, pushing them toward others...