Core Faculty

Dr. Emily Haney-Caron, program director and Assistant Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, teaches doctoral courses on juvenile law, forensic assessment, the law of forensic psychology, and psychopathology, as well as Master's and undergraduate classes. Before joining the faculty at John Jay she completed a pre-doctoral clinical internship at Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School.

Dr. Haney-Caron's research, scholarship, policy work, and teaching are all focused on the juvenile legal system, with a primary goal of contributing to system reform to increase racial justice and improve the system’s developmental appropriateness. She has published research or scholarship on racism and colorism in the juvenile legal system, youth Miranda comprehension, false confession, fines and fees in the juvenile legal system, the school-to-prison pipeline, developmental immaturity, psychopathology among legally involved youth, and applications of the Risk-Needs-Responsivity model to juvenile justice. Dr. Haney-Caron's scholarship has been profiled by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and MSNBC, and has been cited in U.S. Supreme Court amicus briefs and a U.S. Department of Justice Advisory. Dr. Haney-Caron is a licensed psychologist in New York and a licensed attorney in Pennsylvania.

The more than 35 full-time faculty members of the Psychology Department offer a unique blend of expertise in research, scholarship, and teaching. Our adjunct faculty are often actively working in the forensic counseling psychology field. A number of our faculty members have both law degrees and PhDs. Several have extensive experience as clinicians in forensic units of hospitals, in family court, or as consultants to police departments.

Among their interests are dangerousness, screening criminal justice applicants, jury and eyewitness research, insanity defense evaluations, child custody, the consequences of early childhood victimization, hostage negotiations, informed consent, group dynamics and cults, women and crime, delinquency, brainwashing, violence, and multicultural issues. Most have published significant articles and/or books on these and many other topics. Find more information about John Jay faculty, the New York Law School faculty, and the CUNY School of Law faculty.

Contact Us

Program Coordinator 
Emily Haney-Caron, JD, PhD
MAJDcoordinator@jjay.cuny.edu 
10.65.20 New Building