The Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, UK, has a worldwide reputation for excellence in both research and teaching.

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.