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Criminality in Context

The Psychological Foundations of Criminal Justice Reform
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In this groundbreaking book that is built on decades of work on the front lines of the criminal justice system, expert psychologist Craig Haney encourages meaningful and lasting reform by changing the public narrative about who commits crime and why. Based on his comprehensive review and analysis of the research, Haney offers a carefully framed and psychologically based blueprint for making the criminal justice system fairer, with strategies to reduce crime through proactive prevention instead of reactive punishment. Haney meticulously reviews evidence documenting the ways in which a person's social history, institutional experiences, and present circumstances powerfully shape their life, with a special focus on the role of social, economic, and racial injustice in crime causation. Haney debunks the 'crime master narrative' - the widespread myth that criminality is a product of free and autonomous 'bad' choices - an increasingly anachronistic view that cannot bear the weight of contemporary psychological data and theory. This is a must-read for understanding what truly influences criminal behavior, and the strategies for prevention and rehabilitation that follow.
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
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