Natasha Frost

Title

Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Department

Criminology and Criminal Justice

Institution

Northeastern University

n.frost@neu.edu

Education

Ph.D., 2004, Criminal Justice with specialization in Punishment and Social Control City University of New York

Research Interests

Social Policy, Social Policies Quantitative Social Research Criminal Justice Policy

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Biography

Professor Natasha A. Frost serves as Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice with primary responsibility for the administration of the graduate programs. In her role as associate dean, she also coordinates the administration of internship programs for both the undergraduate and graduate students.Professor Frost is also an associate professor in the school with primary research and teaching interests in the area of punishment and social control. Specifically, she is interested in punitiveness, formal and informal social control, and the effects of incarceration on individuals, families, and communities. Professor Frost often works with non-profit and state/local agencies on issues related to her scholarly interests and involves both undergraduate and graduate students in those projects. Since arriving at Northeastern in 2005, she has completed an assessment of state-level variations in punitiveness towards women for the Women's Prison Association in New York, served as a consultant for the Massachusetts State Parole Board, and conducted correctional program assessment and recidivism studies for several Massachusetts Houses of Correction. Professor Frost recently completed an NIJ funded study of the impact of incarceration on crime in communities: Predicting Crime through Incarceration: The Effect of Rates of Prison Cycling on Rates of Crime in Communities. 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.Professor Frost holds a Bachelor's degree in psychology from Northeastern University (1997) and a PhD in criminal justice from the City University of New York's Graduate School and University Center (2004). She was recently elected to the Executive Board of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) and will serve as Executive Officer from 2014-2017.

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Contact Information

617.373.4076

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Social Policy, Social Policies Quantitative Social Research Criminal Justice Policy Public Policy, Public Policies Democratic Process Crime Report, Crime Reporting Correctional Research Social Change New Directions, New Direction Norfolk County American Society Second Chance Book Review, Book Reviews Alternative Measures Criminal Justice Scholars Criminal Justice Review Criminal Justice Education Final Reports, Final Report United States Punitive State Reentry Practices Reference Works Reentry Programs Prime Time Offender Placement Crime Policies, Crime Policy Top Priority Correctional Center Reentry Policies Alert Program National Institute, National Institutes Justice Grant Major Contributor Prison Rape Elimination Act Penal Policy Guest Editors, Guest Editor Public Opinion Polls Contemporary Reader News Photographs Relative Status Additional Year Justice Research Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Drug Testing Hard Hit

List of Publications (86)

In 2014

Clear, Todd R. and Natasha A. Frost 2014 The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Failure of Mass Incarceration in America. New York: New York University Press.
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- 4 - Clear, Todd R., Natasha A. Frost, Michael Carr, Geert Dhondt, Anthony A. Braga, and Garrett Yursza Warfield 2014 Predicting Crime through Incarceration: The Impact of Rates of Prison Cycling on Rates of Crime in Communities. Final Report to the National Institute of Justice (Award no. 2009-IJ-CX-4037). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice.
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In 2013

Predicting Crime through Incarceration: The Impact of Rates of Prison Cycling on Rates of Crime in Communities. (June 2010 - December 2013). Co-Principal Investigator (with Todd R. Clear).
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Frost, Natasha A. 2006 Hard Hit: The Growth in the Imprisonment of Women, 1978-2004. New York, NY: Women's Prison Association. Available Online: http://www.wpaonline.org/institute/hardhit/index.htm G R A N T S & F U N D E D P R O J E C T S Recidivism among Offenders Released from the Custody of the Norfolk Sheriff's Office. (April 2013 - April 2016). Principal Investigator. Norfolk Sheriff's Office Grant. ($126,334).
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Clear, Todd R. and Natasha A. Frost. 2013 The Punishment Imperative: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Social Experiment in Mass Incarceration. New York: New York University Press (In Press -Anticipated Publication Fall 2013)
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Frost, Natasha A. and Todd R. Clear 2013 Coercive Mobility. In Francis Cullen and Pamela Wilcox (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory (pp. 691-708). New York: Oxford University Press.
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Drawbridge, Dara C., Carlos E. Monteiro, and Natasha A. Frost 2013 A Second Chance? Challenges in Implementing and Assessing Offender Reentry Initiatives. In John Smykla and Matthew Crow (Eds.), Offender Reentry in the 21st Century: Voices of Practitioners, Offenders, and Researchers (pp. 75-94). Jones and Bartlett.
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In 2012

Frost, Natasha A. and Todd R. Clear 2012 New directions in correctional research. Justice Quarterly, 29(5): 619-649.
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An Assessment of Reentry Policies and Practices at the Norfolk County Correctional Center. (May 2011 - April 2012). Principal Investigator. Norfolk County Sheriff's Office Grant. ($46,698).
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Frost, Natasha, Dara Cannon Drawbridge, Carlos E. Monteiro and Rebecca Rodriguez-Meade 2012 An Assessment of Reentry Practices, Reentry Programs, and Offender Placement at the Norfolk County Sheriff's Office. Final Report to the Norfolk County Sheriff's Office. April 2012.
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New Directions in Correctional Research. Natasha A. Frost, Todd R. Clear
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Coercive mobility and the impact of prison-cycling on communities. Natasha A. Frost, Laura A. Gross
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Frost, Natasha A. and Laura A. Gross 2012 Coercive mobility and the impact of prison cycling on crime in communities. Crime, Law, and Social Change, 57(5): 459-474.
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E D I T O R I A L W O R K 2011 - 2012
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Frost, Natasha 2012 Book Review: Mary Bosworth, Explaining U.S. Imprisonment. Punishment & Society, 14(5): 629-631.
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In 2011

Frost, Natasha A. and Carlos E. Monteiro 2011 Public Opinion, Crime, and Justice. In Richard Rosenfeld (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online: Criminology. New York: Oxford University Press.
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- 3 - Welsh, Brandon, Natasha A. Frost, and Jack McDevitt 2011 Evidence-Based Crime Policy is a Top Priority at Northeastern University.
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Frost, Natasha A. and Nickie D. Phillips 2011 Talking heads: Crime reporting on cable news. Justice Quarterly, 28(1): 87-112.
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The democratic process and the punitiveness of places: Vanessa Barker, The politics of imprisonment: how the democratic process shapes the way America punishes offenders, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Laura A. Gross, Natasha A. Frost
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Gross, Laura and Natasha A. Frost 2011 Book review: The democratic process and the punitiveness of places. Crime, Law, and Social Change, 56(3): 319-323.
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In 2010

Beyond Public Opinion Polls: Punitive Public Sentiment & Criminal Justice Policy. Natasha A. Frost
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Frost, Natasha A. 2010 Beyond public opinion polls: Punitive public sentiment and criminal justice policy.
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Frost, Natasha A. 2010 Reentry as a process rather than a moment. In K. Ismaili (Ed.), U.S. Criminal Justice Policy: A Contemporary Reader (pp. 159-182). Boston: Jones and Bartlett.
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In 2009

Frost, Natasha A. and Joshua D. Freilich 2009 Advancing justice policy. In Natasha A. Frost, Joshua D. Freilich, and Todd R. Clear (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice Policy: Policy Proposals from the American Society of Criminology Conference (pp. 1-6). Belmont, California: Cengage/Wadsworth.
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Recidivism among Inmates Released from the Billerica House of Correction (April 2008 - May 2009). Principal Investigator. Middlesex Sheriff's Office Grant. ($68,509).
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Frost, Natasha A. 2009 Major Contributor (50+ Entries). The Glossary of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
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Phillips, Nickie and Natasha A. Frost 2009 Crime in prime time. In R. Bing (Ed.), Race, Crime, and the Media. New York: McGraw Hill.
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Understanding mass incarceration as a grand social experiment. Natasha A. Frost, Todd R. Clear
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Talking Heads: Crime Reporting on Cable News. Natasha A. Frost, Nickie D. Phillips
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Reviewed by Nick Harpster (2009) in Criminal Justice Review, 34: 282-284.
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Frost, Natasha A., Carlos E. Monteiro, Garrett A.R. Yursza Warfield, and Desmond Ryan 2009 Recidivism among Inmates Released from the Billerica House of Correction. Final Report to the Middlesex Sheriff's Office. May 2009.
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Frost, Natasha A. 2006 The Punitive State: Crime, Punishment, and Imprisonment across the United States. New York, NY: LFB Scholarly Publications, LLC. Reviewed by Tom Daems (2007) in Crime, Law, and Social Change, 47: 129-133. Reviewed by Nick Harpster (2009) in Criminal Justice Review, 34: 282-284.
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National Institute of Justice Grant # 2009-IJ-CX-4037. ($298,490).
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2009 Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice Policy: Policy Proposals from the American Society of Criminology Conference. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage.
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Frost, Natasha A. and Todd R.Clear 2009 Understanding mass incarceration as a grand social experiment. Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, 47:159-191.
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Clear, Todd R. and Natasha A. Frost 2009 Criminology & public policy. In J. Mitchell Miller (Ed.), 21st Century Criminology (pp. 18-27). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.
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In 2008

2008 National AMBER alert program. In Jeffrey Edleson and Claire Renzetti (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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2008 Torture. In Jeffrey Edleson and Claire Renzetti (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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Frost, Natasha A. 2008 Prisoner reentry. In Jeffrey Edleson and Claire Renzetti (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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Clear, Todd R. and Natasha A. Frost 2008 Rules of engagement: Criminology & criminal justice policy. Criminal Justice Matters, 72(1):37-38.
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The mismeasure of punishment: Alternative measures of punitiveness and their (substantial) consequences. N. A. Frost
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Frost, Natasha A. 2008 Book review: Confronting the consequences of penal policy. Theoretical Criminology, 12(4):556-559.
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2008 Rape shield laws. In Jeffrey Edleson and Claire Renzetti (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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2008 Prison Rape Elimination Act. In Jeffrey Edleson and Claire Renzetti (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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Frost, Natasha A. 2008 The mismeasure of punishment: Alternative measures of punitiveness and their (substantial) consequences. Punishment & Society, 10(3):277-300.
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In 2007

Frost, Natasha A. and Todd R. Clear 2007 Doctoral education in criminology & criminal justice. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 18(1):35-52.
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Frost, Natasha A. 2007 Editorial introduction: Securing borders and saving lives. Criminology & Public Policy, 6(2):241-244.
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Reviewed by Tom Daems (2007) in Crime, Law, and Social Change, 47: 129-133.
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INFORMING PUBLIC POLICY. TODD R. CLEAR, NATASHA A. FROST
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Productivity of Criminal Justice Scholars Across the Career. Natasha A. Frost, Nickie D. Phillips, Todd R. Clear
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SECURING BORDERS & SAVING LIVES. NATASHA A. FROST
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Doctoral Education in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Natasha A. Frost, Todd R. Clear
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Frost, Natasha A., Nickie D. Phillips, and Todd R. Clear 2007 Productivity of criminal justice scholars across the career. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 18(3):428-433.
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Clear, Todd R. and Natasha A. Frost 2007
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The Punitiveness Project: Punitiveness Toward Female Offenders. (2005-2007). Principal Investigator. Women's Prison Association Grant ($78,160).
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Series Editor Criminology & Justice Policy Book Series Northeastern University Press - UPNE Associate Editor (2005-2007) and Managing Editor (2000-2007)
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In 2006

- 2 - Frost, Natasha A. 2006 Editorial introduction: Mandatory minimum sentencing. Criminology & Public Policy, 5(1):1-4.
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Frost, Natasha A. 2006 The Punitive State: Crime, Punishment, and Imprisonment across the United States. New York, NY: LFB Scholarly Publications, LLC.
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CRIMINOLOGY & PUBLIC POLICY: A NEW JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY. TODD R. CLEAR, NATASHA A. FROST
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FROM THE EDITORIAL OFFICE. TODD R. CLEAR, NATASHA A. FROST
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MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCING. NATASHA A. FROST
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In 2004

2004 Police and the news media. In Larry Sullivan (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement.
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2004 Pretrial detainees. In Mary Bosworth (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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(September 2003 - August 2004). National Institute of Justice Grant 2003-IJ-CX-0015 ($105,440).
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In 2003

Clear, Todd R. & Natasha A. Frost 2003 Editorial introduction: Private prisons. Criminology & Public Policy, 1(3):425-426.
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(September 2002 - August 2003). National Institute of Justice Grant # 2002-IJ-CX-0015
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In 2002

- 5 - Criminology to adopt and publish the journal Criminology & Public Policy (formerly Crime and Justice Research) as an official publication of the organization (September 2001 - August 2002). National Institute of Justice Grant # 2001-IJ-CX-0015. ($206,356)
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2002 Editorial introduction: Drug testing. Criminology & Public Policy, 1(2):187-188.
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Smiling and relative status in news photographs.. Judith A Hall, Jason D Carter, Maria C Jimenez, Natasha A Frost, Lavonia Smith LeBeau
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PRIVATE PRISONS. TODD R. CLEAR, NATASHA A. FROST
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2002 Editorial introduction: Stalking. Criminology & Public Policy, 1(2):255.
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Clear, Todd R. & Natasha A. Frost 2002 Editorial introduction: Gun control. Criminology & Public Policy, 1(2):149.
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Hall, Judith A., Jason Carter., Maria Jimenez., Natasha A. Frost, and Lavonia S. LeBeau 2002 Smiling and relative status in news photographs. Journal of Social Psychology, 142(4):500-510.
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2002 Experimental criminology. In David Levinson (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Crime & Punishment, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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In 2001

2001 Criminology & Public Policy: A new journal of the American Society of Criminology. Criminology & Public Policy, 1(1):1-4.
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Crime and Justice Research (ultimately published as Criminology & Public Policy) (September 2000 - September 2001). National Institute of Justice Grant #2000-IJ-CX-0036. ($113,961)
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Unspecified

Insanity defense. In Jeffrey Edleson and Claire Renzetti (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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Non-Refereed Publications (Articles, Essays, Book Reviews, and Reference Works)
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Criminology for an additional year of funding for the publication Criminology & Public Policy.
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Informing public policy. Criminology & Public Policy, 6(4):633-640.
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Book Review: Confronting the consequences of penal policy: Devah Pager Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. N. A. Frost
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- 1 - Frost, Natasha A., Joshua D. Freilich and Todd R. Clear (Eds.)
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Criminology & Public Policy (Peer-review Journal)
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Guest Editor, Special Issue on Coercive Mobility Crime, Law, and Social Change (Vol 57, Issue 5)
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Academy of Experimental Criminology/Division or Experimental Criminology Newsletter. Vol 6, Issue 2, October.
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Official Publication of the American Society of Criminology
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