Stigmatic Shaming
Definition
Shaming that labels the offender rather than the act, degrades the person, and offers no ceremony of reacceptance, pushing them toward others who share the stigmatised identity.
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...
- Reintegrative Shaming
- Disapproval of a wrongful act that is expressed within relationships of respect for the offender, followed by gestures of forgiveness and reacceptance...
- 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...
- Interdependency
- How much a person relies on and is relied upon by others for approval, resources and belonging, which determines whether shaming has...
- Positive Criminology
- A perspective, developed by Natti Ronel and Ety Elisha from 2011, that studies protective and prosocial forces, rather than only risk factors,...
- Reintegration Ceremony
- The community's active signal, once wrongdoing is acknowledged and some repair made, that the offender is welcomed back to ordinary status.
- Shame Management
- How an individual processes shame once it arrives: by acknowledging it and repairing harm, or by displacing it into denial, anger or...
Explained in these topics
- Reintegrative Shaming Theory and Positive Criminology
- Shaming Theory and Braithwaite (UGC-NET Unit IV)Disapproval that brands the offender's whole identity rather than the act, creates a permanent master status, and offers no ceremony of return.