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    Criminality in Context
    The Psychological Foundations of Criminal Justice Reform

    Craig Haney (Author)

    9781433831423

    Paperback / softback, published 28 January 2020

    423 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
    25.4 x 17.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.784 kg

    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 amp ldquo politically amp rdquo 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)

    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.

    Foreword, by Shadd Maruna

    Preface

    Introduction

    Chapter : 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 : 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 amp ldquo Equally Free Autonomous Choice amp rdquo
    Chapter 9: Reorienting the Law: Context-Based Legal Reforms
    Chapter : Pursuing Social Justice: An Agenda for Fair, Effective, and Humane Crime Policy

    Afterword
     
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