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]
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]
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]
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]