Beth M. Huebner is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her principal research interests include the collateral consequences of incarceration, racial and gender disparities in the criminal justice system, and public policy. She is currently serving as co-principal investigator for the St. Louis County MacArthur Safety + Justice Challenge and collaborating on a study of monetary sanctions in Missouri with funding from the Arnold Foundation. She is the current chair of the Division on Corrections and Sentencing for the American Society of Criminology. She earned her PhD in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University in 2003.

Natasha A. Frost is a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She also currently serves as associate dean for graduate studies in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern. Professor Frost's primary scholarly interests are in the area of punishment and social control, with a focus on mass incarceration and its consequences. Professor Frost was recently awarded NIJ funding to study the many impacts of correctional officer suicide, with a specific focus on its impacts on the officer's families, friends, co-workers, and supervisors, and on the well-being of those who continue to work in correctional settings where suicides have concentrated. Professor Frost holds a PhD in criminal justice from the City University of New York's Graduate School and University Center (2004).