Natasha Frost
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; PhD Program Director
Professor Natasha Frost’s research and scholarship focuses broadly on punishment and social control and specifically on mass incarceration and the effects of incarceration on individuals, families, and communities.
Much of her recent work has focused on the impacts of incarceration on those who work in prisons. Professor Frost is currently finishing a research project funded in 2016 by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) on correction officer suicide and wellbeing. She was recently awarded additional funding from NIJ to study the careers of officers from the academy onward to better understand the relationship between organizational and occupational stressors, violence exposures, and officer mental health and wellbeing. Professor Frost is also working with colleagues at four other universities on a seven state study on the sources and consequences of prison violence. Professor Frost frequently involves both undergraduate and graduate students in those projects.
Her book, The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America, co-authored with Todd R. Clear was published in 2014 by NYU Press. Other publications have appeared in Justice Quarterly, Criminology & Public Policy, Punishment & Society, Crime, Law and Social Change, and Studies in Law, Politics, and Society.
- Frost, Natasha A. and Carlos E. Monteiro. 2020. The interaction of personal and occupational factors in the suicide deaths of correction officers. Justice Quarterly, Vol 7(7) 1277-1302.
- Frost, Natasha A. 2020. Understanding the Impacts of Officer Suicide. Corrections Today, pp. 14-18. March/April.
- Clear, Todd R. and Natasha A. Frost. 2020. Coercive mobility in an era of declining prison populations. Pp. 187-197 in Cecilia Chouhy, Joshua C. Cochran, and Cheryl Lero Jonson. (Eds.), Criminal Justice Theory: Explanations and Effects. New York: Routledge.
- Frost, Natasha A., Jessica Trapassi and Steven Heinz. 2019, in press. Public opinion and correctional privatization. Criminology & Public Policy, 18(2): 457-476.
- Huebner, Beth and Natasha A. Frost (Eds.). 2018. Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions. New York: Routledge.
- Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost (2014). The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America. New York: New York University Press.
- Correction Officer Safety, Health, and Wellness
- American Society of Criminology (ASC)
- Division of Corrections and Sentencing, ASC
- Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
- Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Education
PhD, 2004, Criminal Justice with specialization in Punishment and Social Control, City University of New York
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401J Churchill Hall
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
