Craig Haney
Biographic Data
| ID | 3846246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Haney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Haney |
| SIGNATURE | HANEY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cyrus Ahalt and Brie Williams are with Amend at University of California San Francisco. Craig Haney is with Amend and the Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz. Kim Ekhaugen is with the International Unit of the Directorate of the Norwegian Correctional Service, Lillestrøm, Norway. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“We just needed to open the door”
Solitary confinement is a widespread practice in US correctional facilities. Long-standing concerns about the physical and mental health effects of solitary confinement have led to litigation, legislation, and community activism resulting in many prison systems introducing policies or implementing legal mandates to reduce or eliminate its use. Yet little is known about the nature and effectiveness of policies that states have adopted to reduce th…
Criminality in context
Role of a US–Norway Exchange in Placing Health and Well-Being at the Center of US Prison Reform
The Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement
Research findings on the psychological effects of solitary confinement have been strikingly consistent since the early nineteenth century. Studies have identified a wide range of frequently occurring adverse psychological reactions that commonly affect prisoners in isolation units. The prevalence of psychological distress is extremely high. Nonetheless, use of solitary confinement in the United States vastly increased in recent decades. Advocates…
The media’s impact on the right to a fair trial
Death Qualification in Black and White
Death qualification has been shown to have a number of biasing effects that appear to undermine a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a fair jury. Attitudes toward the death penalty have shifted modestly but consistently over the last several decades in ways that may have changed the overall impact of death qualification. Specifically, the very large gap between black and white Americans' current support for capital punishment raises the…
Emotion, Authority, and Death
This article explores the role of emotion in the capital penalty‐phase jury deliberations process. It is based on the qualitative analysis of data from ninety video‐recorded four to seven person simulated jury deliberations that examined the influence of race on death sentencing outcomes. The analysis explores when and how emotions are expressed, integrated into the jury's sentencing process, and deployed in penalty‐phase decision making. The fin…
Mapping the Racial Bias of the White Male Capital Juror
This article examines the nature of racial bias in the death sentencing process. After reviewing the various general explanations for the continued significance of race in capital cases, we report the results of an empirical study in which some aspects of racially biased death sentencing are examined in depth. Specifically, in a simulated capital penalty-phase trial setting where participants were assigned to small group "juries" and given an opp…
Reforming punishment
"In Reforming Punishment: Psychological Limits to the Pains of Imprisonment, author Craig Haney argues that the United States has pursued fundamentally flawed prison policies that have crossed the line from imposing punishment to doing real harm. His carefully reasoned argument suggests that--by ignoring the social contextual causes of crime and minimizing the potentially harmful effects of imprisonment itself--these policies not only cause undue…
Death by Design
How can otherwise normal, moral persons - as citizens, voters, and jurors - participate in a process that is designed to take the life of another? In DEATH BY DESIGN, research psychologist Craig Haney argues that capital punishment, and particularly the sequence of events that lead to death sentencing itself, is maintained through a complex and elaborate social psychological system that distance and disengage us from the true nature of the task. …
Death by design
How can otherwise normal, moral persons - as citizens, voters, and jurors - participate in a process that is designed to take the life of another? In DEATH BY DESIGN, research psychologist Craig Haney argues that capital punishment, and particularly the sequence of events that lead to death sentencing itself, is maintained through a complex and elaborate social psychological system that distances and disengages us from the true nature of the task…
A Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison
Mental Health Issues in Long-Term Solitary and “Supermax” Confinement
This article discusses the recent increase in the use of solitary-like confinement, especially the rise of so-called supermax prisons and the special mental health issues and challenges they pose. After briefly discussing the nature of these specialized and increasingly widespread units and the forces that have given rise to them, the article reviews some of the unique mental-health-related issues they present, including the large literature that…
Making law modern
Ideology and crime control
Ideology and crime control
The past and future of U.S. prison policy
Commonsense justice and capital punishment
Violence and the Capital Jury
Commonsense justice and capital punishment
Psychology and the limits to prison pain
This article examines the nexus between modern psychological theory (especially contextual or situational models of behavior), contemporary prison policy, and the legal concept of cruel and unusual punishment. It briefly reviews the history of imprisonment in the United States and the role of psychology in the development of prison punishment. An analysis of research on the psychological effects of imprisonment is presented, followed by a discuss…
Broken Promise
In this article we address the issues of when and how well the United States Supreme Court has taken cognizance of psychological data in its evolving jurisprudence of death. After a brief historical review of the use of psychological data in death penalty litigation, and a discussion of how and why it once promised to play a unique role in capital litigation, we assess the Court's record in using and evaluating this kind of data over the last two…
Deciding to Take a Life
Death sentencing is a psychologically complex and legally profound process. Our research explored the experiences of capital jurors who had deliberated to verdict in death penalty sentencing hearings. In‐depth interviews conducted with samples of jurors from two states—California and Oregon—examined the nature and function of capital sentencing instructions, jurors' interpretations of the evidence that was presented during the penalty phase of th…
The influence of race on sentencing
This article presents a meta‐analytic review of simulation studies that examine the effect of defendant's race on jurors' sentencing decisions. Several narrative reviews have characterized the results of these studies as inconsistent or demonstrating only occasional effects. In contrast, the present meta‐analysis indicated significant overall support for the hypothesis that racial bias influences sentencing decisions. In addition, our analysis fa…
Civil rights and institutional law
In this paper we examine the development of “institutional law,” a recent corpus of doctrines and decisions by which courts have attempted to limit, restructure, and reform total institutions in the name of protecting individual liberty. We suggest that institutional law has reached a crucial stage in which legal decrees now must translate more effectively into institutional change. We use court-ordered school desegregation of the southern United…
Bargain Justice in an Unjust World
That relatively few criminal cases in this country are resolved by full Perry Mason-style strials is fairly common knowledge. Most cases are settled by a guilty plea after some form of negotiation over the charge or sentence. But why? The standard explanation is case pressure: the enormous volume of criminal cases, to be processed with limited staff, time and resources. . . . But a large body of new empirical research now demands that we re-exami…
Mapping the Racial Bias of the White Male Capital Juror
This article examines the nature of racial bias in the death sentencing process. After reviewing the various general explanations for the continued significance of race in capital cases, we report the results of an empirical study in which some aspects of racially biased death sentencing are examined in depth. Specifically, in a simulated capital penalty-phase trial setting where participants were assigned to small group "juries" and given an opp…
The Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement
Research findings on the psychological effects of solitary confinement have been strikingly consistent since the early nineteenth century. Studies have identified a wide range of frequently occurring adverse psychological reactions that commonly affect prisoners in isolation units. The prevalence of psychological distress is extremely high. Nonetheless, use of solitary confinement in the United States vastly increased in recent decades. Advocates…
Emotion, Authority, and Death
This article explores the role of emotion in the capital penalty‐phase jury deliberations process. It is based on the qualitative analysis of data from ninety video‐recorded four to seven person simulated jury deliberations that examined the influence of race on death sentencing outcomes. The analysis explores when and how emotions are expressed, integrated into the jury's sentencing process, and deployed in penalty‐phase decision making. The fin…
Deciding to Take a Life
Death sentencing is a psychologically complex and legally profound process. Our research explored the experiences of capital jurors who had deliberated to verdict in death penalty sentencing hearings. In‐depth interviews conducted with samples of jurors from two states—California and Oregon—examined the nature and function of capital sentencing instructions, jurors' interpretations of the evidence that was presented during the penalty phase of th…
Violence and the Capital Jury
Role of a US–Norway Exchange in Placing Health and Well-Being at the Center of US Prison Reform
The media’s impact on the right to a fair trial
Commonsense justice and capital punishment
Psychology and the limits to prison pain
This article examines the nexus between modern psychological theory (especially contextual or situational models of behavior), contemporary prison policy, and the legal concept of cruel and unusual punishment. It briefly reviews the history of imprisonment in the United States and the role of psychology in the development of prison punishment. An analysis of research on the psychological effects of imprisonment is presented, followed by a discuss…
Broken Promise
In this article we address the issues of when and how well the United States Supreme Court has taken cognizance of psychological data in its evolving jurisprudence of death. After a brief historical review of the use of psychological data in death penalty litigation, and a discussion of how and why it once promised to play a unique role in capital litigation, we assess the Court's record in using and evaluating this kind of data over the last two…
Death Qualification in Black and White
Death qualification has been shown to have a number of biasing effects that appear to undermine a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a fair jury. Attitudes toward the death penalty have shifted modestly but consistently over the last several decades in ways that may have changed the overall impact of death qualification. Specifically, the very large gap between black and white Americans' current support for capital punishment raises the…
Bargain Justice in an Unjust World
That relatively few criminal cases in this country are resolved by full Perry Mason-style strials is fairly common knowledge. Most cases are settled by a guilty plea after some form of negotiation over the charge or sentence. But why? The standard explanation is case pressure: the enormous volume of criminal cases, to be processed with limited staff, time and resources. . . . But a large body of new empirical research now demands that we re-exami…
Civil rights and institutional law
In this paper we examine the development of “institutional law,” a recent corpus of doctrines and decisions by which courts have attempted to limit, restructure, and reform total institutions in the name of protecting individual liberty. We suggest that institutional law has reached a crucial stage in which legal decrees now must translate more effectively into institutional change. We use court-ordered school desegregation of the southern United…
The influence of race on sentencing
This article presents a meta‐analytic review of simulation studies that examine the effect of defendant's race on jurors' sentencing decisions. Several narrative reviews have characterized the results of these studies as inconsistent or demonstrating only occasional effects. In contrast, the present meta‐analysis indicated significant overall support for the hypothesis that racial bias influences sentencing decisions. In addition, our analysis fa…
Broken Promise
In this article we address the issues of when and how well the United States Supreme Court has taken cognizance of psychological data in its evolving jurisprudence of death. After a brief historical review of the use of psychological data in death penalty litigation, and a discussion of how and why it once promised to play a unique role in capital litigation, we assess the Court's record in using and evaluating this kind of data over the last two…
Deciding to Take a Life
Death sentencing is a psychologically complex and legally profound process. Our research explored the experiences of capital jurors who had deliberated to verdict in death penalty sentencing hearings. In‐depth interviews conducted with samples of jurors from two states—California and Oregon—examined the nature and function of capital sentencing instructions, jurors' interpretations of the evidence that was presented during the penalty phase of th…
Commonsense justice and capital punishment
Violence and the Capital Jury
Commonsense justice and capital punishment
Psychology and the limits to prison pain
This article examines the nexus between modern psychological theory (especially contextual or situational models of behavior), contemporary prison policy, and the legal concept of cruel and unusual punishment. It briefly reviews the history of imprisonment in the United States and the role of psychology in the development of prison punishment. An analysis of research on the psychological effects of imprisonment is presented, followed by a discuss…
The past and future of U.S. prison policy
Ideology and crime control
Ideology and crime control
Making law modern
Mental Health Issues in Long-Term Solitary and “Supermax” Confinement
This article discusses the recent increase in the use of solitary-like confinement, especially the rise of so-called supermax prisons and the special mental health issues and challenges they pose. After briefly discussing the nature of these specialized and increasingly widespread units and the forces that have given rise to them, the article reviews some of the unique mental-health-related issues they present, including the large literature that…
A Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison
Death by Design
How can otherwise normal, moral persons - as citizens, voters, and jurors - participate in a process that is designed to take the life of another? In DEATH BY DESIGN, research psychologist Craig Haney argues that capital punishment, and particularly the sequence of events that lead to death sentencing itself, is maintained through a complex and elaborate social psychological system that distance and disengage us from the true nature of the task. …
Death by design
How can otherwise normal, moral persons - as citizens, voters, and jurors - participate in a process that is designed to take the life of another? In DEATH BY DESIGN, research psychologist Craig Haney argues that capital punishment, and particularly the sequence of events that lead to death sentencing itself, is maintained through a complex and elaborate social psychological system that distances and disengages us from the true nature of the task…
Reforming punishment
"In Reforming Punishment: Psychological Limits to the Pains of Imprisonment, author Craig Haney argues that the United States has pursued fundamentally flawed prison policies that have crossed the line from imposing punishment to doing real harm. His carefully reasoned argument suggests that--by ignoring the social contextual causes of crime and minimizing the potentially harmful effects of imprisonment itself--these policies not only cause undue…
Mapping the Racial Bias of the White Male Capital Juror
This article examines the nature of racial bias in the death sentencing process. After reviewing the various general explanations for the continued significance of race in capital cases, we report the results of an empirical study in which some aspects of racially biased death sentencing are examined in depth. Specifically, in a simulated capital penalty-phase trial setting where participants were assigned to small group "juries" and given an opp…
Emotion, Authority, and Death
This article explores the role of emotion in the capital penalty‐phase jury deliberations process. It is based on the qualitative analysis of data from ninety video‐recorded four to seven person simulated jury deliberations that examined the influence of race on death sentencing outcomes. The analysis explores when and how emotions are expressed, integrated into the jury's sentencing process, and deployed in penalty‐phase decision making. The fin…
The Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement
Research findings on the psychological effects of solitary confinement have been strikingly consistent since the early nineteenth century. Studies have identified a wide range of frequently occurring adverse psychological reactions that commonly affect prisoners in isolation units. The prevalence of psychological distress is extremely high. Nonetheless, use of solitary confinement in the United States vastly increased in recent decades. Advocates…
The media’s impact on the right to a fair trial
Death Qualification in Black and White
Death qualification has been shown to have a number of biasing effects that appear to undermine a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a fair jury. Attitudes toward the death penalty have shifted modestly but consistently over the last several decades in ways that may have changed the overall impact of death qualification. Specifically, the very large gap between black and white Americans' current support for capital punishment raises the…
Criminality in context
Role of a US–Norway Exchange in Placing Health and Well-Being at the Center of US Prison Reform
Political science (23 works) · Criminology (22 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Law (18 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Capital (architecture (7 works)