Jennifer Tostlebe, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- 218 CPACS | 6001 Dodge Street
- Omaha, NE 68182-0149
Additional Information
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder
Jennifer Tostlebe joined the UNO SCCJ as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2023.
Professional Experience and Expertise
Dr. Jenn Tostlebe’s research focuses on incarceration and reentry; mental and physical health; gangs in communities and institutions; and empirical tests of criminological theory.
Specifically, she focuses on three main issues: (1) the application and elaboration of criminological theory to the landscapes of institutional corrections and reentry, (2) criminal justice system responses to incarcerated and previously incarcerated individuals, and (3) exploring the intersection of social influences and individual characteristics and how they independently and interactively impact illicit activity both in custodial settings and post-release.
Tostlebe has been the project manager for a study investigating the impact of solitary confinement (and a step-down program) on incarcerated individuals and prisons in Oregon. She has also worked on a National Institute of Justice funded project examining gangs and reentry in Texas and a National Institutes of Health funded project examining the sources of mortality risk among individuals identified as gang members in a police database.
Her work has appeared in outlets such as Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Health & Justice, Homicide Studies, and Preventive Medicine.
Additional Information
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder
Jennifer Tostlebe joined the UNO SCCJ as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2023.
Professional Experience and Expertise
Dr. Jenn Tostlebe’s research focuses on incarceration and reentry; mental and physical health; gangs in communities and institutions; and empirical tests of criminological theory.
Specifically, she focuses on three main issues: (1) the application and elaboration of criminological theory to the landscapes of institutional corrections and reentry, (2) criminal justice system responses to incarcerated and previously incarcerated individuals, and (3) exploring the intersection of social influences and individual characteristics and how they independently and interactively impact illicit activity both in custodial settings and post-release.
Tostlebe has been the project manager for a study investigating the impact of solitary confinement (and a step-down program) on incarcerated individuals and prisons in Oregon. She has also worked on a National Institute of Justice funded project examining gangs and reentry in Texas and a National Institutes of Health funded project examining the sources of mortality risk among individuals identified as gang members in a police database.
Her work has appeared in outlets such as Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Health & Justice, Homicide Studies, and Preventive Medicine.