In this groundbreaking book that is built on decades of work on the front lines of the criminal justice system, expert psychologist Craig Haney provides a blueprint for fundamental reform by changing our understanding of who commits crime and why. Based on a comprehensive review and analysis of psychological research, Haney offers a carefully constructed framework for enhancing legal fairness and reducing crime through proactive prevention instead of reactive punishment. Haney meticulously reviews evidence documenting the ways in which a person amp rsquo s social history, institutional experiences, and present circumstances powerfully shape their life course, with a special focus on the role of social, economic, and racial injustice in crime causation. He thus effectively debunks the
amp ldquo crime master narrative amp rdquo -the widespread myth that criminality is a product of free and autonomous
amp ldquo bad amp rdquo
choices-an increasingly anachronistic view that cannot bear the weight of contemporary psychological data and theory. This is a must-read for understanding the origins of criminal behavior and developing a fair and effective system to address them.
By:
Craig Haney
Imprint: American Psychological Association
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Weight: 770g
ISBN: 9781433831423
ISBN 10: 1433831422
Series: Psychology, Crime, and Justice Series
Pages: 423
Publication Date: 28 January 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword, by Shadd Maruna Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Individualistic Myths and the Crime Master Narrative Chapter 2: Risks and Contexts: An Alternative Paradigm for Understanding Criminality Chapter 3: Criminogenic Trauma: Social History and the Life Course Chapter 4: Institutional Failure: State Intervention as Criminogenic Risk Chapter 5: Criminogenic Contexts: Immediate Situations, Settings, and Circumstances Chapter 6: Poverty: Structural Risk and Criminal Behavior Chapter 7: The Criminogenics of Race in a Divided Society: Racialized Criminality and Biographical Racism Chapter 8: Individualistic Myths and the Disregard of Context: Deconstructing “Equally Free Autonomous Choice” Chapter 9: Reorienting the Law: Context-Based Legal Reforms Chapter 10: Pursuing Social Justice: An Agenda for Fair, Effective, and Humane Crime Policy Afterword
Since his early work on the Stanford Prison Experiment, Craig Haney has become one of the nation amp rsquo s most highly regarded scholars whose research, writing, and testimony have helped to transform the criminal justice system. He served on a National Academy of Sciences committee studying mass incarceration, and his front-line observations and analyses have been cited by the United States Supreme Court. He has seen firsthand how social and economic injustice operate to produce crime in our society and how often the criminal justice system acts to worsen rather than alleviate these problems. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Reviews for Criminality in Context: The Psychological Foundations of Criminal Justice Reform
Instead of punitive, oppressive, and racist social control, the author vividly delineates a model of compassionate, innovative, and progressive reforms that will transform the current politically driven, chaotic system into an effective criminal justice model. Including policing, the judicial system, and the penal system in the realm of criminal justice reform, Criminality in Context is a wonderful read for all people vested in better understanding the intersections among crime, legal and penal policy, and the criminal justice system as a whole.-- Choice Reviews
