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]

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