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Preface -- 1. Rapid cascades, coupled crises -- 2. Containment of crises -- 3. Containing states rarely, temporarily -- 4. Institutions to manage threats -- 5. Containing Weapon Systems -- 6. Restorative diplomacy -- 7. Contest political ritualism -- 8. Taking simple institutional virtues seriously.

This open access book sets out simple solutions to managing complex catastrophes. It focusses on four kinds of crises – climate change, crime-war cascades, epidemics and financial crises. These catastrophes are conceived as complex and prone to cascade effects. This book is optimistic in explaining that there are identifiable simple institutions that international society can strengthen and some simple principles that can help humankind to control the expanding gamut of complex catastrophes that confront the planet including simple, stable institutions and regulatory bodies. It draws on a wide range of current and past crises and challenges, from the Cold War to COVID-19, and from Weapons of Mass Destruction to restorative diplomacy with States like China, to provide an urgent and timely path forward. It speaks to those interested in criminology, public policy and international relations, political science, sociology, public health and economics.

How can power over others be transformed to 'power with'? It is possible to transform many institutions to build societies with less predation and more freedom. These stretch from families and institutions of gender to the United Nations. Some societies, times and places have crime rates a hundred times higher than others

How can power over others be transformed to 'power with'? It is possible to transform many institutions to build societies with less predation and more freedom. These stretch from families and institutions of gender to the United Nations. Some societies, times and places have crime rates a hundred times higher than others. Some police forces kill at a hundred times the rate of others. Some criminal corporations kill thousands more than others. Micro variables fail to explain these patterns. Prevention principles for that challenge are macrocriminological. Freedom is conceived in a republican way as non-domination. Tempering domination prevents crime; crime prevention reduces domination. Many believe a high crime rate is a price of freedom. Not Braithwaite. His principles of crime control are to build freedom, temper power, lift people from poverty and reduce all forms of domination. Freedom requires a more just normative order. It requires cascading of peace by social movements for non-violence and non-domination. Periods of war, domination and anomie cascade with long lags to elevated crime, violence, inter-generational self-violence and ecocide. Cybercrime today poses risks of anomic nuclear wars. Braithwaite's proposals refine some of criminology's central theories and sharpen their relevance to all varieties of freedom. They can be reduced to one sentence. Strengthen freedom to prevent crime, prevent crime to strengthen freedom.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Dimensions of Inequality -- Chapter 1: Competitiveness in Schools and Delinquency Australian Journal of Social Issues, 10, Australian Council of Social Service, 1975, pp. 107−110 -- Chapter 2: The Effect of Income Inequality and Social Democracy on Homicide (with Valerie Braithwaite) British Journal of Criminology, 20, Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 45−53 -- Chapter 3: Inegalitarian Consequences of Egalitarian Reforms to Control Corporate Crime Temple Law Quarterly, 53, Temple University, 1980, pp. 1127−1146 -- Chapter 4: Poverty, Power, White-Collar Crime and the Paradoxes of Criminological Theory Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 24, Butterworths, 1991, pp. 40−58 -- Chapter 5: Inequality and Republican Criminology Crime and Inequality, ed. J. Hagan and R Peterson, Stanford University Press, 1995, pp. 277−327 -- Part II: Responsive Regulation -- Chapter 6: Preventive Law and Managerial Auditing (with Brent Fisse) Managerial Auditing Journal, 3, MCB University Press, 1988, pp. 17−20 -- Chapter 7: Convergence in Models of Regulatory Strategy Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 2, University of Sydney 1990, pp. 59−65 -- Chapter 8: Beyond Positivism: Learning from Contextual Integrated Strategies Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 30, Sage Periodicals, 1993, pp. 383−399 -- Chapter 9: Transnational Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 525, Sage Periodicals, 1993, pp. 12−30 -- Part III: Republican Legal Institutions -- Chapter 10: The Politics of Legalism: Rules Versus Standards in Nursing Home Regulation (with Valerie Braithwaite) Social and Legal Studies, 4, Sage Publications, 1995, pp. 307−341.

Peacebuilding Compared and the Bougainville conflict --Historical background to the conflict --Descent into civil war --Peacemaking on, off and finally back on track --The architecture of the peace --Reconciliation and reintegration --The cost of the conflict --Layers of identity involved in the conflict --Interpreting the conflict in summary --Deep and shallow restorative peace.

Getting tough on crime has been one of the favorite rallying cries of American politicians in the last two decades, and "getting tough" on repeat offenders has been particularly popular. "Three strikes and you're out" laws, which effectively impose a 25-years-to-life sentence at the moment of a third felony conviction, have been passed in 26 states. California's version of the "three strikes" law, enacted in 1994, was broader and more severe than measures considered or passed in any other state. Punishment and Democracy is the first examination of the actual impact this law has had. Franklin Z