Alison Liebling, FBA (born 26 July 1963) is a British criminologist and academic. She has been Director of the Prisons Research Centre at the University of Cambridge since 2000, and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice since 2006.[1][2][3][4]

Liebling has degrees from the University of York, University of Hull, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Her academic career started as a research assistant at Hull and Cambridge, before being elected a Fellow of Trinity Hall in 1991. She has been a lecturer (2001–2003), Reader (2003–2006), and Professor (since 2006) at the Institute of Criminology within Cambridge's Faculty of Law.[1]

Honours

In 2016, Liebling was awarded the Perrie Award:[5] the associated lecture which she delivered was titled "The cost to prison legitimacy of cuts".[6] In July 2018, she was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[7]

Selected works

  • Liebling, Alison (1992). Suicides in prison. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415075596.
  • Liebling, Alison (2004). Prisons and their moral performance: a study of values, quality, and prison life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199271221.
  • Liebling, Alison; Maruna, Shadd, eds. (2005). The effects of imprisonment. Abingdon: Willan Publishing. ISBN 978-1843920939.
  • Liebling, Alison; Price, David; Shefer, Guy (2010). The prison officer (2nd ed.). Abingdon: Willan Publishing. ISBN 978-1843922704.
  • Liebling, Alison; Maruna, Shadd; McAra, Lesley, eds. (2017). The Oxford handbook of criminology (6th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198719441.

References

  1. 1 2 "Liebling, Prof. Alison". Who's Who 2019. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2018. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  2. ↑ "Professor Alison Liebling". Institute of Criminology. University of Cambridge. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  3. ↑ "Professor Alison Liebling". Prisons Research Centre. University of Cambridge. 20 November 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  4. ↑ "Professor Alison Liebling". The British Academy. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  5. ↑ "Annual Report - Activities" (pdf). Prisons Research Centre. University of Cambridge. October 2016. p. 3. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  6. ↑ "Perrie Lecture: The cost to prison legitimacy of cuts" (PDF). Prison Service Journal (198): 3–11. November 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  7. ↑ "Record Number of Academics Elected to British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
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