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]
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. ISBN978-0415075596.
Liebling, Alison (2004). Prisons and their moral performance: a study of values, quality, and prison life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0199271221.
Liebling, Alison; Maruna, Shadd, eds. (2005). The effects of imprisonment. Abingdon: Willan Publishing. ISBN978-1843920939.
Liebling, Alison; Price, David; Shefer, Guy (2010). The prison officer (2nd ed.). Abingdon: Willan Publishing. ISBN978-1843922704.
Liebling, Alison; Maruna, Shadd; McAra, Lesley, eds. (2017). The Oxford handbook of criminology (6th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0198719441.