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Craig Haney is an American social psychologist and a professor at the
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, noted for his work on the study of capital punishment and the psychological impact of imprisonment and prison isolation since the 1970s. He was a researcher on
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Education

Haney obtained his B.A from the
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and his M.A., Ph.D. in Psychology and J.D. from Stanford Law School.


Career

In 1971, while at Stanford, Haney collaborated with
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in conducting what is known today as
The Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was a psychological experiment conducted in the summer of 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behav ...
, for which Haney served as a principal researcher. This experience help to set in course Haney's subsequent career and work with prison systems. It ingrained in Haney that “context matters, prisoners are people, mistreatment has consequences”, and perpetuated his passion about the psychological impact of incarceration, and his advocacy for humanization and reform. Haney is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology and the UCSC Presidential Chair (for a three-year term which runs from 2015 until 2018) at the University of California Santa Cruz where he has been a member the faculty for some 39 years. He was selected as the university's Distinguished Faculty Research Lecturer in 2014. He has taught Psychology and Law I & II, Social Justice, Society, and Policy, and Graduate Research Methods, and The Social Context. His work with graduate students involves applied research on criminal justice topics including: the effects of imprisonment, criminogenic social histories, the effects of death qualification, and the impact of pretrial publicity on legal decision making. Teaching awards include, in 2015, his second Excellence in Teaching award bestowed by the UC Santa Cruz faculty senate.


Publications

Haney has published five books, numerous research articles, and entries in law reviews, including: * ''Death By Design: Capital Punishment as a Social Psychological System'' (
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, 2005), which received the Herbert Jacobs Prize from the Law and Society Association as “the most outstanding book on law and society” published that year. * ''Reforming Punishment: Psychological Limits to the Pains of Imprisonment'' (
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, 2006), which was nominated for a
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. * ''The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring the Causes and Consequences'' (
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, 2014), for which he was a co-author along with other members of the National Academies charged with studying the causes and consequences of high rates of incarceration in the United States. * ''Prisons Worldwide'' ( Praeger Publishers, 2016), three volumes co-authored with Lynne Haney. *''Criminality in Context: The Psychological Foundations of Criminal Justice Reform'' (
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, 2020). Haney has also written for the
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Testimony and media

Haney has served as an expert witness in several influential
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cases related to the prison environment and punishment, including: Toussaint v. McCarthy (1984), Madrid v. Gomez (1995), Coleman v. Brown (1995), and Ruiz v. Johnson (1999). Moreover, Haney's work was influential in the
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5–4 ruling of
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(2011), which upheld a lower court ruling that the California prison population be reduced. Commenting on this last case, Haney stated: "When prisons are unduly painful, they become harmful and the system begins to break down and fail." He noted further, "Prisoners can carry the consequences of that harm back out into the free world once they're released. I was very gratified to see the Supreme Court embrace that concept”. In 2012, Haney testified before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights of the
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at a hearing on “Reassessing
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”. In 2014, he spoke on the
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program, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, about the impacts of solitary confinement. In 2018, Haney was interviewed by
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on a 60 Minutes segment that addressed the psychological consequences of long-term isolation.


References

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