Dr Ruth Armstrong

Visiting Scholar at Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

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Visiting Scholar, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

Dr Ruth Armstrong is an internationally recognised criminologist and visiting scholar at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. She has published widely on experiences in and after prison for those who live and work in the criminal justice system. She specialises in understanding and measuring the processes through which people move away crime, and the individual, interpersonal and broader social contours of these processes. Her research has included several studies in the UK, but much of her work has focussed on global realities, especially in the USA and Latin America. Alongside her academic publications, Ruth has directed several short films depicting the realities of life in prison and post release and the current state of evidence around best practice.

Ruth divides her time between leading independent research projects, supporting national and international third sector criminal justice organisations in strategic development and providing training to state criminal justice agencies in prisons and in the community.

https://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/People/current-visitors