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Overview

Craig Haney is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with specific contributions to sociology and political science, clinical psychology, general health professions, law, and statistics and probability.

Haney's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Criminal justice and corrections analysis
  • Employment and welfare studies
  • Migration, health, and trauma
  • Health and conflict studies
  • Census and population estimation
  • Health policy implementation science
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment

The researcher has published across various venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Health & Justice
  • American Journal of Public Health
  • PLoS ONE
  • American Psychologist
  • Psychology Public Policy and Law

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Haney include:

  • "Role of a US-Norway Exchange in Placing Health and Well-Being at the Center of US Prison Reform" (2020), American Journal of Public Health
  • ""We just needed to open the door": a case study of the quest to end solitary confinement in North Dakota" (2021), Health & Justice
  • "Continuing to acknowledge the power of dehumanizing environments: Comment on Haslam et al. (2019) and Le Texier (2019)." (2020), American Psychologist
  • "The resource team: A case study of a solitary confinement reform in Oregon" (2023), PLoS ONE
  • "The continuing unfairness of death qualification: Changing death penalty attitudes and capital jury selection." (2022), Psychology Public Policy and Law

Co-authors frequently collaborating with Haney include:

  • Cyrus Ahalt
  • Brie Williams
  • David H. Cloud
  • Dallas Augustine
  • Lisa Peterson

In addition to journal articles, Haney has published a book titled Criminality in context: The psychological foundations of criminal justice reform. This work was published by the American Psychological Association in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Interpersonal dynamics in a simulated prison.

    Craig Haney;Curtis Banks;Philip Zimbardo

  • Interpersonal Dynamics in a Simulated Prison

    Craig Haney;Curtis Banks;Philip Zimbardo

  • Mental Health Issues in Long-Term Solitary and “Supermax” Confinement:

    Craig Haney

  • Study of Prisoners and Guards in a Simulated Prison

    Craig Haney;Curtis Banks;Philip G. Zimbardo

  • Reforming Punishment: Psychological Limits to the Pains of Imprisonment

    Craig Haney

  • The Past and Future of U.S. Prison Policy Twenty-Five Years After the Stanford Prison Experiment

    Craig Haney;Philip Zimbardo

  • Cycles of Pain: Risk Factors in the Lives of Incarcerated Mothers and Their Children

    Susan Greene;Craig Haney;Aída Hurtado

  • The influence of race on sentencing: A meta‐analytic review of experimental studies

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  • Discrimination and instructional comprehension: guided discretion, racial bias, and the death penalty.

    Mona Lynch;Craig Haney

  • Bargain Justice in an Unjust World: Good Deals in the Criminal Courts?

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  • Psychology and legal change

    Craig Haney

  • The past and future of U.S. prison policy: Twenty-five years after the Stanford Prison Experiment.

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  • The Psychological Impact of Incarceration: Implications for Post-Prison Adjustment

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  • How Health Care Reform Can Transform The Health Of Criminal Justice–Involved Individuals

    Josiah D. Rich;Redonna Chandler;Brie A. Williams;Dora Dumont

  • Reflections on the Stanford Prison Experiment: Genesis, Transformations, Consequences

    Philip G. Zimbardo;Christina Maslach;Craig Haney

  • A culture of harm: Taming the dynamics of cruelty in supermax prisons.

    Craig Haney

  • Restricting the Use of Solitary Confinement

    Craig Haney

  • Deciding to Take a Life: Capital Juries, Sentencing Instructions, and the Jurisprudence of Death

    Craig Haney;Lorelei Sontag;Sally Costanzo

  • Prison Effects in the Era of Mass Incarceration

    Craig Haney

  • Social Context of Capital Murder: Social Histories and the Logic of Mitigation

    Craig Haney

  • Capital jury deliberation: effects on death sentencing, comprehension, and discrimination.

    Mona Lynch;Craig Haney

  • Violence and the capital jury: Mechanisms of moral disengagement and the impulse to condemn to

    Craig Haney

  • Death by Design: Capital Punishment as a Social Psychological System

    Craig Haney

  • Mapping the Racial Bias of the White Male Capital Juror: Jury Composition and the “Empathic Divide”

    Mona Lynch;Craig Haney

  • Comprehending life and death matters

    Craig Haney;Mona Lynch

  • The Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement: A Systematic Critique

    Craig Haney

  • The Fourteenth Amendment and symbolic legality: Let them eat due process.

    Craig Haney

  • Psychology and the limits to prison pain: Confronting the coming crisis in Eighth Amendment law.

    Craig Haney

  • “Madness” and penal confinement: Some observations on mental illness and prison pain:

    Craig Haney

  • Persistent Dispositionalism in Interactionist Clothing: Fundamental Attribution Error in Explaining Prison Abuse:

    Craig Haney;Philip G. Zimbardo

Frequent Co-Authors

Mona Lynch
Mona Lynch University of California, Irvine
Philip G. Zimbardo
Philip G. Zimbardo Stanford University
Stephen Reicher
Stephen Reicher University of St Andrews
Thomas F. Pettigrew
Thomas F. Pettigrew University of California, Santa Cruz
S. Alexander Haslam
S. Alexander Haslam University of Queensland
Christopher Wildeman
Christopher Wildeman Duke University
Bruce Western
Bruce Western Columbia University
Faye S. Taxman
Faye S. Taxman George Mason University
Stuart A. Kinner
Stuart A. Kinner University of Melbourne

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