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Overview

Alison Liebling is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences and psychology, with notable contributions to the subfields of sociology and political science, clinical psychology, general health professions, political science and international relations, and public administration.

The main topics that characterize their body of work include criminal justice and corrections analysis, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry and sexual offending, homelessness and social issues, crime patterns and interventions, child abuse and trauma, healthcare decision-making and restraints, and psychiatric care and mental health services.

Liebling's publication record features several recent papers such as:

  • More Mind Games: How 'The Action' and 'The Odds' have Changed in Prison (2020) published in The British Journal of Criminology
  • Where Two 'Exceptional' Prison Cultures Meet: Negotiating Order in a Transnational Prison (2020) published in The British Journal of Criminology
  • What is trauma-informed practice? Towards operationalisation of the concept in two prisons for women (2022) published in Criminology & Criminal Justice
  • Do prisons cause radicalization? Order, leadership, political charge and violence in two maximum security prisons (2022) published in The British Journal of Criminology
  • Doing Team Ethnography in a Transnational Prison (2021) published in International Criminology

Frequent coauthors working with Alison Liebling include Katherine M. Auty, Bethany E. Schmidt, Lesley McAra, Ben Crewe, and Berit Johnsen, each contributing notably across multiple projects.

Liebling's work is published often in key venues such as The British Journal of Criminology, CrimRxiv, European Journal of Criminology, Incarceration, and Criminology & Criminal Justice, reflecting sustained engagement with criminology research communities.

In addition to articles, Alison Liebling has contributed to book publications, including a title under Oxford University Press titled The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (2023), which has gathered substantial academic citations.

Best Publications

  • Prisons and Their Moral Performance: A Study of Values, Quality, and Prison Life

    Alison Liebling;Helen Arnold

  • The Prison Officer

    Alison Liebling;David Price;Guy Shefer

  • Suicides in prison

    Alison Liebling

  • The Effects of Imprisonment

    Alison Liebling;Shadd Maruna

  • Doing Research in Prison: Breaking the Silence?

    Alison Liebling

  • Moral performance, inhuman and degrading treatment and prison pain:

    Alison Liebling

  • Prison Suicide and Prisoner Coping

    Alison Liebling

  • Prison Officers, Policing and the Use of Discretion:

    Alison Liebling

  • Appreciative Inquiry and Relationships in Prison

    Alison Liebling;David Price;Charles Elliott

  • Whose Side are We on? Theory, Practice and Allegiances in Prisons Research

    Alison Liebling

  • Distinctions and distinctiveness in the work of prison officers: Legitimacy and authority revisited

    Alison Liebling

  • Staff culture, use of authority and prisoner quality of life in public and private sector prisons

    Ben Crewe;Alison Liebling;Susie Hulley

  • Social relationships between prisoners in a maximum security prison: Violence, faith, and the declining nature of trust

    Alison Liebling;Helen Arnold

  • Preventing suicide in prisons, part I. Recommendations from the International Association for Suicide Prevention Task Force on Suicide in Prisons.

    Norbert Konrad;Marc S. Daigle;Anasseril E. Daniel;Greg E. Dear

  • VULNERABILITY AND PRISON SUICIDE

    Alison Liebling

  • Conceptualising and Measuring the Quality of Prison Life

    Alison Liebling;Susie Hulley;Ben Crewe

  • A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation in Prison Effects on Psychological Well-Being and Behavioural Functioning

    Katherine M. Auty;Aiden Cope;Alison Liebling

  • Exploring the Relationship between Prison Social Climate and Reoffending

    Katherine M. Auty;Alison Liebling

  • SUICIDE AMONGST WOMEN PRISONERS

    Alison Liebling

  • Revisiting prison suicide: the role of fairness and distress

    Alison Liebling;Linda Durie;Annick Stiles;Sarah Tait

  • The Oxford Handbook of Criminology

    Alison Liebling;Shadd Maruna;Lesley McAra

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben Crewe
Ben Crewe University of Cambridge
Shadd Maruna
Shadd Maruna Queen's University Belfast
Ad J. F. M. Kerkhof
Ad J. F. M. Kerkhof Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Michael W. Ross
Michael W. Ross University of Minnesota
Marco Sarchiapone
Marco Sarchiapone University of Molise

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