Natasha A Frost
Biographic Data
| ID | 4590272 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natasha A Frost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natasha A |
| FAMILY NAME | Frost |
| SIGNATURE | FROST N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1716-1746 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Examining Differences in the Individual and Contextual Risk Factors for Police Officer, Correctional Officer, and Non-Protective Service Suicides
Suicide rates vary across occupational groups, with protective service occupations at elevated risk for suicide. Yet, research on correctional officer suicide remains sparse, as does research linking the broader social context to police officer suicides and correctional officer suicides. This study examines differences in the individual and contextual risk factors for police officer suicides, correctional officer suicides, and non-protective serv…
Moving from Policy to Practice for Early Childhood Obesity Prevention
Policies requiring childcare settings to promote healthy eating, physical activity, and limited screentime have the potential to improve young children's health. However, policies may have limited impact without effective implementation strategies to promote policy adoption. In this mixed-methods study, we evaluated the type, quality, and dose of implementation strategies for state-level childcare licensing regulations focused on healthy eating, …
The Punishment Imperative
Over the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate—five times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the rest of the world. In The Punishment Imperative, eminent criminologists Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost argue that America’s move to mass incarceration from the 1960s to the early 2000s was more than just a response to crime or a collection of policies adopted in isolation; it was a grand social ex…
State Regulations to Support Children’s Cultural and Religious Food Preferences in Early Care and Education
Most states lacked regulations consistent with the benchmark. Health professionals can help encourage ECE programs to consider cultural and religious food preferences of children in meal planning. And, if feasible, states may consider additional regulations supporting cultural and religious preferences of children in future updates to regulations
Public opinion and correctional privatization
Research Summary Slightly more than half of all states and the federal government currently have contracted with private prison corporations for the incarceration of some of their correctional populations. We use the literature on privatization of prisons to argue that we know surprisingly little about the public's perception of this phenomenon. We summarize what is known from the thin body of research into public opinion in the correctional doma…
Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions
"Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions, the third volume in the Routledge ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Series, includes contemporary essays on the consequences of punishment during an era of mass incarceration. The Handbook Series offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections. In that spirit, the editors gathered contributions that summari…
Media and Young Minds
Childcare Providers’ Possession or Use of Marijuana, Tobacco, or Alcohol While Caring for Children
Objectives. To evaluate US state regulations regarding marijuana, tobacco, and alcohol to determine the extent to which states attempt to govern these substances in early care and education (ECE) settings. Methods. Two independent reviewers assessed regulations enacted by December 2016 for all states and the District of Columbia. Reviewers compared regulations to national standards on the possession or use of marijuana, tobacco, and alcohol in EC…
Theories of Mass Incarceration
This essay focuses in greater detail on sources of the massive increase in US prison admissions in the late 20th century. It argues that subtle, and not so subtle, shifts in policy and practice lead to changes in the way people approach crime prevention and control, and those shifts ultimately explain changing rates of incarceration. Elsewhere, these dynamics have been referred to as the “iron law” of prison populations. Explaining increases (or …
Altering Trajectories Through Community‐Based Justice Reinvestment
Mary Bosworth, Explaining U.S. Imprisonment
Beyond Public Opinion Polls
The punitive turn in criminal justice policy, epitomized by policies like three‐strikes, truth in sentencing, and mandatory minimums, is often attributed in part to demand for harsher criminal justice responses from an increasingly punitive public. It has been argued that public opinion, known to be both largely uninformed and often misunderstood, might both indirectly and directly affect policy. This survey article on punitiveness in public opin…
The mismeasure of punishment
Over the past few decades, scholars of punishment and social control have increasingly lamented the punitive turn in criminal justice policy. The perpetually growing size of prison populations has typically been portrayed as the end result of (indeed evidence of) an increasingly punitive criminal justice response. Although many recognize that the size of prison populations ultimately depends upon both the flow into and out of prisons, the vast ma…
Productivity of Criminal Justice Scholars Across the Career
From the moment young scholars enter the academy, they are cautioned that they should be prepared to "publish or perish." Because a demonstrable record of scholarly publication is arguably the most important consideration at most universities and colleges that award tenure, junior faculty would be advised to heed that caution. But is there a reduction in pressure post‐tenure, and if so, does this result in a reduction in the publication productiv…
Informing Public Policy
Securing Borders & Saving Lives
Doctoral Education in Criminology and Criminal Justice
With more than half of all doctoral programs in criminology and criminal justice admitting their first doctoral student after 1990, growth in doctoral education in criminology and criminal justice in recent years has been substantial. Using seven years of data from annual surveys of all institutions known to offer the doctorate in criminology and criminal justice, we document and explore the contours of that growth in doctoral education in crimin…
Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
Private Prisons
Criminology & Public Policy
Beyond Public Opinion Polls
The punitive turn in criminal justice policy, epitomized by policies like three‐strikes, truth in sentencing, and mandatory minimums, is often attributed in part to demand for harsher criminal justice responses from an increasingly punitive public. It has been argued that public opinion, known to be both largely uninformed and often misunderstood, might both indirectly and directly affect policy. This survey article on punitiveness in public opin…
The mismeasure of punishment
Over the past few decades, scholars of punishment and social control have increasingly lamented the punitive turn in criminal justice policy. The perpetually growing size of prison populations has typically been portrayed as the end result of (indeed evidence of) an increasingly punitive criminal justice response. Although many recognize that the size of prison populations ultimately depends upon both the flow into and out of prisons, the vast ma…
The Punishment Imperative
Over the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate—five times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the rest of the world. In The Punishment Imperative, eminent criminologists Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost argue that America’s move to mass incarceration from the 1960s to the early 2000s was more than just a response to crime or a collection of policies adopted in isolation; it was a grand social ex…
Doctoral Education in Criminology and Criminal Justice
With more than half of all doctoral programs in criminology and criminal justice admitting their first doctoral student after 1990, growth in doctoral education in criminology and criminal justice in recent years has been substantial. Using seven years of data from annual surveys of all institutions known to offer the doctorate in criminology and criminal justice, we document and explore the contours of that growth in doctoral education in crimin…
Altering Trajectories Through Community‐Based Justice Reinvestment
Criminology & Public Policy
Public opinion and correctional privatization
Research Summary Slightly more than half of all states and the federal government currently have contracted with private prison corporations for the incarceration of some of their correctional populations. We use the literature on privatization of prisons to argue that we know surprisingly little about the public's perception of this phenomenon. We summarize what is known from the thin body of research into public opinion in the correctional doma…
Private Prisons
Criminology & Public Policy
Private Prisons
Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
Productivity of Criminal Justice Scholars Across the Career
From the moment young scholars enter the academy, they are cautioned that they should be prepared to "publish or perish." Because a demonstrable record of scholarly publication is arguably the most important consideration at most universities and colleges that award tenure, junior faculty would be advised to heed that caution. But is there a reduction in pressure post‐tenure, and if so, does this result in a reduction in the publication productiv…
Informing Public Policy
Securing Borders & Saving Lives
Doctoral Education in Criminology and Criminal Justice
With more than half of all doctoral programs in criminology and criminal justice admitting their first doctoral student after 1990, growth in doctoral education in criminology and criminal justice in recent years has been substantial. Using seven years of data from annual surveys of all institutions known to offer the doctorate in criminology and criminal justice, we document and explore the contours of that growth in doctoral education in crimin…
The mismeasure of punishment
Over the past few decades, scholars of punishment and social control have increasingly lamented the punitive turn in criminal justice policy. The perpetually growing size of prison populations has typically been portrayed as the end result of (indeed evidence of) an increasingly punitive criminal justice response. Although many recognize that the size of prison populations ultimately depends upon both the flow into and out of prisons, the vast ma…
Beyond Public Opinion Polls
The punitive turn in criminal justice policy, epitomized by policies like three‐strikes, truth in sentencing, and mandatory minimums, is often attributed in part to demand for harsher criminal justice responses from an increasingly punitive public. It has been argued that public opinion, known to be both largely uninformed and often misunderstood, might both indirectly and directly affect policy. This survey article on punitiveness in public opin…
Mary Bosworth, Explaining U.S. Imprisonment
Altering Trajectories Through Community‐Based Justice Reinvestment
Theories of Mass Incarceration
This essay focuses in greater detail on sources of the massive increase in US prison admissions in the late 20th century. It argues that subtle, and not so subtle, shifts in policy and practice lead to changes in the way people approach crime prevention and control, and those shifts ultimately explain changing rates of incarceration. Elsewhere, these dynamics have been referred to as the “iron law” of prison populations. Explaining increases (or …
Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions
"Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions, the third volume in the Routledge ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Series, includes contemporary essays on the consequences of punishment during an era of mass incarceration. The Handbook Series offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections. In that spirit, the editors gathered contributions that summari…
Media and Young Minds
Childcare Providers’ Possession or Use of Marijuana, Tobacco, or Alcohol While Caring for Children
Objectives. To evaluate US state regulations regarding marijuana, tobacco, and alcohol to determine the extent to which states attempt to govern these substances in early care and education (ECE) settings. Methods. Two independent reviewers assessed regulations enacted by December 2016 for all states and the District of Columbia. Reviewers compared regulations to national standards on the possession or use of marijuana, tobacco, and alcohol in EC…
State Regulations to Support Children’s Cultural and Religious Food Preferences in Early Care and Education
Most states lacked regulations consistent with the benchmark. Health professionals can help encourage ECE programs to consider cultural and religious food preferences of children in meal planning. And, if feasible, states may consider additional regulations supporting cultural and religious preferences of children in future updates to regulations
Public opinion and correctional privatization
Research Summary Slightly more than half of all states and the federal government currently have contracted with private prison corporations for the incarceration of some of their correctional populations. We use the literature on privatization of prisons to argue that we know surprisingly little about the public's perception of this phenomenon. We summarize what is known from the thin body of research into public opinion in the correctional doma…
The Punishment Imperative
Over the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate—five times larger than in the past and grossly out of scale with the rest of the world. In The Punishment Imperative, eminent criminologists Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost argue that America’s move to mass incarceration from the 1960s to the early 2000s was more than just a response to crime or a collection of policies adopted in isolation; it was a grand social ex…
Moving from Policy to Practice for Early Childhood Obesity Prevention
Policies requiring childcare settings to promote healthy eating, physical activity, and limited screentime have the potential to improve young children's health. However, policies may have limited impact without effective implementation strategies to promote policy adoption. In this mixed-methods study, we evaluated the type, quality, and dose of implementation strategies for state-level childcare licensing regulations focused on healthy eating, …
Examining Differences in the Individual and Contextual Risk Factors for Police Officer, Correctional Officer, and Non-Protective Service Suicides
Suicide rates vary across occupational groups, with protective service occupations at elevated risk for suicide. Yet, research on correctional officer suicide remains sparse, as does research linking the broader social context to police officer suicides and correctional officer suicides. This study examines differences in the individual and contextual risk factors for police officer suicides, correctional officer suicides, and non-protective serv…
Criminology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (7 works) · Criminal justice (7 works)