CRIME, SHAME , AND COMMUNITY: MEDIATION AGAINST VIOLENCE

WELLNESS FOUNDATION
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE

Thomas J. Scheff
Professor Emeritus of Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara.

WELLNESS LECTURE SERIES VOLUME VI
October 1996.

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• PART 1
  INTRODUCTION
  
• PART 2
  WHY MEDIATION?
  
• PART 3
  MATERIAL AND SYMBOLIC PROCESSES IN CRIME CONTROL
  
• PART 4
  REINTEGRATIVE SHAME;
  HIDDEN SHAME
  
• PART 5
  PATHS TO SYMBOLIC REPARATION:
  REFRAMING INDIGNATION AND ELICITING PAINFUL EMOTIONS
  
• PART 6
  MORAL INDIGNATION;
  TWO TYPES OF MORAL INDIGNATION:
  SELF-RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION AND MORAL SUPERIORITY
  
• PART 7
  THE HIDDEN SHAME IN INDIGNATION
  ENCOURAGING THE EXPRESSION OF PAINFUL EMOTIONS
  CONCLUSION: EDUCATION AND MEDIATION
  
• REFERENCES

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The following is a modification of Retzinger S, Scheff T. Strategy for community conferences. In: Galaway B, Ryan J, eds. Restorative Justice. Monsey, NY: Criminal Justice Press; 1996.

Thomas J. Scheff is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Being Mentally Ill; Microsociology; Emotions and Violence (with Suzanne Retzinger); Bloody Revenge; and other books and articles. He is a former Chair of the Section on the Sociology of Emotions, American Sociological Association, and the President of the Pacific Sociological Association. His fields of research are social psychology, emotions, mental illness, and new approaches to theory and method. His current studies concern anger management, solidarity-alienation, and alternative methods of crime control. A forthcoming book will concern part/whole analysis, a unified approach to theory and method in the human sciences.

Acknowledgments:
Comments on earlier drafts by Suzanne Retzinger, Terry O’Connell, and Irene Bronston and her staff were very helpful. Thomas J. Scheff, Professor Emeritus Dept of Sociology UCSB Fax 805 893 3324

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