Alison Liebling

Alison Liebling, born July 26, 1963, is a British criminologist and academic who has directed the Prisons Research Centre at the University of Cambridge since 2000 and has been Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice there since 2006. She holds degrees from the University of York, the University of Hull and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, was elected a Fellow of Trinity Hall in 1991, and rose from lecturer through reader to professor in the Institute of Criminology within the Faculty of Law. Her books include Suicides in Prison, Prisons and Their Moral Performance, a study of values, quality and prison life, and The Prison Officer. She received the Perrie Award in 2016 and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in July 2018.