The Nashville John School: Affective Governance and the Reintegrative Shaming Approach

Third-party support for retribution, rehabilitation, and giving an offender a clean slate.

“…First, future research could continue investigating the factors that influence third-party support for giving offenders a clean slate. For example, in the literature on restorative shaming, the process has been described as one in which the offender, from the beginning, is never seen as an outgroup member and is never judged as having an unchanging, deviant character (Braithwaite, 1989; Valenzuela, 2016). Future research could investigate when such appraisals occur and how they affect third-party support for giving offenders clean slates following punishment.…”

“…In the case of shame, the emotion can be experienced internally by offenders when they consider themselves to have fallen short of a certain social or moral standard. The experience may lead an individual to acknowledge that they have committed a wrongdoing, but if the shame continues after a sentence has been completed, it could cause exoffenders to withdraw themselves socially from the larger group (Valenzuela, 2016). Similarly, when a person is seen in a stigmatized manner, they are perceived in a stereotypical and undesirable way by the larger social group, which then leads the group to socially reject the exoffender (Goffman, 1963).…”