Criminality in Context: The Psychological Foundations of Criminal Justice Reform, Paperback

To achieve meaningful and lasting criminal justice reform, we must change the public narrative about who commits crime and why. In this groundbreaking book, Craig Haney provides a psychological basis for fundamental criminal justice reform. He meticulously reviews research on how personal history and present circumstances shape criminal behavior and offers a blueprint for effective criminal justice reform that emphasizes proactive, structural prevention rather than reactive punishment.

Since his early work on the Stanford Prison Experiment, Craig Haney has become one of the nation'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.