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.

Her research focuses on the alignment between adolescents' capacities to make legal decisions and the expectations placed upon them by the juvenile justice system. She has published research or scholarship on juvenile false confession, juvenile Miranda comprehension, fines and fees in the juvenile justice system, the school-to-prison pipeline, developmental immaturity, psychopathology among justice-involved youth, and applications of the Risk-Needs-Responsivity model to juvenile justice. Dr. Haney-Caron's work has been profiled by The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and MSNBC. Dr. Haney-Caron is a licensed attorney in Pennsylvania and a licensed clinical psychologist in New York.

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 here and New York Law School faculty here.  

Contact Us

Program Coordinator
Emily Haney-Caron, PhD, JD
ehaney-caron@jjay.cuny.edu
212.393.6818
10.63.30 New Building