Kelly Frailing

Loyola University

Kelly Frailing is an associate professor of criminology and justice at Loyola University New Orleans. Her areas of expertise include crime and disaster, people with mental illness who are justice system involved, and specialty courts and programs; she has published dozens of articles on these topics. She is a co-author of Toward a Criminology of Disaster, The Criminalization of Mental Illness, 3rd edition, and Fundamentals of Criminology, 2nd edition. Frailing is the co-editor of Crime and Criminal Justice in Disaster, 3rd edition, and The Criminalization of Mental Illness: A Reader