Welcome to the Summer 2021 Opening Research Episode of The Criminology Academy podcast.
For this episode, Jose and Jenn chat with Professor Natasha Frost about her work on suicide risk and risk-factors among correction officers in Massachusetts.
Natasha is a Professor and Doctoral Program Director of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. Her 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. Natasha has published in journals such as Justice Quarterly, Criminology & Public Policy, and Punishment & Society. 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 New York University Press.
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Get in touch with Natasha Frost:
Northeastern University Website // n.frost AT northeastern.edu
This is the article authored by Natasha Frost that was discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
Frost, N. A., & Monteiro, C. E. (2020). The Interaction of Personal and Occupational Factors in the Suicide Deaths of Correction Officers. Justice Quarterly, 37(7), 1277-1302.
To access the article, please click here.
To learn more about the associated larger project, please click here.
Non-Profits Mentioned in this Episode:
On Guard Initiative
Out of the Darkness