Stacie St. Louis

Criminology and Justice Policy, PhD

Stacie St. Louis is a doctoral candidate in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. She holds a M.S. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Northeastern and a B.A. in Legal Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her dissertation assesses the cumulative disadvantages of pretrial detention, exploring the role of dangerousness perceptions in case processing. Specifically, she applies advanced analytic methods to measure how certain sub-groups of defendants are more likely to be detained pretrial and face more severe adjudication and sentencing outcomes via their increased likelihood of pretrial detention. Earlier in her graduate studies, she served as a primary research assistant on two National Institute of Justice-funded projects aiming to better understand correctional officer stress and suicide. Her assistantships provided her the opportunity to recruit participants, create questionnaires, interview prison administrators, officers, and their family members, and analyze the resulting quantitative and qualitative data. She has also worked alongside a local county jail to evaluate their programs. She is currently teaching Criminal Justice Research Methods and has also taught The Death Penalty.

Related Schools & Departments

School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Publications

Frost, N. A., Monteiro, C. E., Stowell, J. I., Trapassi, J., & St. Louis, S. (2020). The Impact of Correction Officer Suicide on the Institutional Environment and on the Wellbeing of Correctional Employees. Final summary overview prepared for the National Institute of Justice. Washington, D.C.
Frost, N. A. & St. Louis, S. (2020). Reforming Penalty. In L. A. Gould & J. J. Brent (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on American Prisons. Routledge.
St. Louis, S., & Greene, J. R. (2020). Social context in police legitimacy: giving meaning to police/community contacts. Policing and Society, 30(6), 656-673. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1578768
St. Louis, S. (2019). Neighborhood Context and the Pretrial Process: Do Defendants Face Adverse Outcomes Due to Their Home Address?. Criminal Justice Policy Review. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0887403419890124
Frost, N. A., St. Louis, S., & Monteiro, C. E. (2019). Norfolk Sheriff’s Office Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Grant: Process and Outcome Evaluation of a Randomized Control Trial. Final report to the Norfolk County Sheriff’s Office. Dedham, MA.
St. Louis, S. (2019, September/October). The Importance of Service for Professional Development: Why and How Students Should Get Involved in the University, Profession, and Community. The Criminologist. Retrieved from https://www.asc41.com/Criminologist/2019/ASC-Criminologist-2019-09.pdf

Presentations

St. Louis, S. (2020, November 18-20). Bail Denied or Bail Too High? Disentangling Cumulative Effects by Detention Type and Release [panel presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Criminology Consortium. Selected for the Division of Corrections and Sentencing’s Featured Student Panel.
St. Louis, S., Monteiro, C. E., & Frost, N. A. (2019). Correctional Officer Stress and the Role of Prison Climate [panel presentation]. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Awards and Honors

2021 – Ben Steiner Excellence in Corrections Student Paper Award, Division on Corrections and Sentencing, American Society of Criminology
2020 – Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Student Research Funding
2019 – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency Graduate Student Publishing Workshop: Selected Participant and Scholarship Recipient (University of Maryland, College Park)
2019 – Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Doctoral Summit: Selected Participant and Scholarship Recipient (Baltimore, MD)

More Student Paths

Charles T. Wallace-Thomas IV

Charles took "Sustainable Renewable Energy Development in the Global South" with Professor Shalanda Baker, which pushed him to further question systems as they exist, no matter their entrenched in society.
He did community service as part of the Ujima Global Leaders Program through the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute. He worked on the Timebank team, helping give back to local communities.
Charles split his time for his first co-op between the Center for Economic Democracy and the Boston Ujima Project, where he analyzed studies on community needs, including infrastructure and childcare.
He was one of the co-creators of the #BlackAtNU campaign and advocated for racial literacy courses and a restorative and transformative justice center on campus.
Charles made his own research project- a macroeconomic index to measure democratic participation in municipal economies, partnering with NU, the Columbus Foundation and the Center for Economic Democracy.
He worked at the Participatory Budgeting Project as a Program Associate, helping city systems and other organizations actively decide how to invest money across different spaces.
Charles graduated in 2022. ..

Casey Greenleaf

Casey took Global Markets and Local Cultures. After traveling, she better saw how the coursework mirrored real life, and knew her education was preparing her for the world.
She went on a DOC to Argentina and Uruguay, and become highly proficient while living in Buenos Aires and visiting the glaciers of the Patagonia region.
Casey completed her first co-op at the Museum of Fine Arts as a community arts program assistant. She gained valuable hands-on experience assisting in arts classes for local communities.
She joined the Sociology & Anthropology Student Association during her third year. It allowed her to get to know her fellow students and mirrored the small school experience she loved.
Casey studied abroad in Nepal for her capstone thesis. She lived alone for a month while she researched and wrote about the lived experience of climate change in the lower Himalayas.
She worked for the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, founded by Professor Sarah Wylie. She produced promotional videos, developed a virtual research event, wrote event programming, and more.
Casey graduated in 2020. ..

Sunita Pfitzner

Sunita took Revolution, Civil War, and Insurrection, taught by Professor Risa Kitagawa. The course invited students to question the motives behind acts of violence against governments.
She traveled on a Dialogue of Civilizations to Jordan and Egypt; while there she grew interested in Middle East politics and the Arabic language.
Sunita worked at the Institute for Economics and Peace in Sydney, Australia, where she analyzed data on the corruption of police forces in Mexico.
Sunita was a member of the International Relations Council and traveled abroad with the club to compete in Model Arab League, Model NATO, and Model UN conferences.
Sunita conducted research with Berna Turam, developing a greater understanding of the Mediterranean migrant crisis. She also researched the feminist response to Covid-19 with Val Moghadam.
She graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2022.
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Yasser Aponte

Yasser was in the Foundation Year program at Northeastern. The program was a rigorous deep dive into core subject classes that helped Yasser bridge the gap between his high school and college experiences.
He took Issues in Cities and Suburbs with Professor Erin Graves in Fall 2018. As someone deeply invested in urban life, he found the course was an enlightened look at the problems endemic to cities.
Yasser joined the Boston Beer Company as a Program Operations and Event Assistant for his first co-op. He worked on inventory, public relations, brewery events, and workspace organization.
He implemented community gardens all over Boston on deserted plots of land during his time as the Northeastern Campus Director for the campus’ United Nations Millennium Fellowship.
Yasser maintained a farm in Dorchester for The Food Project. He harvested crops, distributed produce through donations and food markets, and worked on overall logistics.
In 2020, Yasser won the Community Service Leadership award, given to students who show exemplary community engagement. He was recognized for his work at The Food Project, Northeastern Crossing, and more.
He graduated 2022 with his Bachelor’s in International Affairs and Religious Studies and his Master’s in Security and Resilience Studies, through Northeastern’s PlusOne program...