Organisations and institutions
Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
The Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, UK, has a worldwide reputation for excellence in both research and teaching. Information about our teaching and research can be found on our courses and research pages. http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/
The Prisons Research Centre was founded in 2000, under the Directorship of Professor Alison Liebling and aims to provide a stimulating research environment in which a coherent strategy of research and integration between funded and non-funded, and between applied and theoretical projects, can be facilitated. We are striving to consolidate and enhance the Cambridge Institute of Criminology's strengths in prison research, and its capacity to collaborate with others.
Category: Academic Institution Parent Organisation: University of CambridgeEvaluations as related organisation (2)
Beats & Bars - Music in Prisons: An Evaluation
The report evaluated a series of five-day music projects which took place in eight men’s prisons across England from October 2007 to July 2008. The evaluation was aimed at understanding the impact of the project on its participants’ engagement with purposeful activities whilst in prison. In particular the impact of ... read on →
All Together Now
This study assessed the therapeutic benefits and value of taking part in Good Vibrations muisc projects - the study was written up in the Prison Service Journal in March 2007. read on →
Publications
Alison Liebling, Can human beings flourish in prison? (May 2012) Links: Prison Phoenix Trust website , Downloads: Can human beings flourish in prison?_Alison Liebling_May 2012
Mike Hough, Alison Liebling and Friedrich Lösel, Mike Maguire, Rod Morgan and Robert Reiner, Oxford Handbook of Criminology (April 2012) Links: Publishers website
Friedrich Lösel, Risk and Protective Factors Associated with the Resettlement of Imprisoned Fathers & their Families (January 2012) Links: Download link on University website
Ben Crewe, Susie Hulley and Alison Liebling, ‘Values and Practices in Public and Private Sector Prisons: A Summary of Key Findings from an Evaluation ’, in: Prison Service Journal (July 2011), Issue 196, pp.55–58 Links: Download link on Prisons Research Centre website
Alison Liebling, ‘Conceptualising and Measuring the Quality of Prison Life ’, in: Academy for Justice Commissioning news bulletin (February 2011), Issue 13, pp.11–13 Links: ESRC website
Leon Digard, Anna Grafin von Sponek and Alison Liebling, ‘All Together Now: the therapeutic potential of a prison-based music programme ’, in: Prison Service Journal (March 2007), Issue 170 Links: Good Vibrations website
