Alison Liebling Explained

Alison Liebling, (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.

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

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

Notes and References

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