Professor Andrew Coyle CMG, is Emeritus Professor of Prison Studies, University of London. Helen Fair is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Criminal Policy Research. Dr Jessica Jacobson is Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research. Roy Walmsley established and is Director of the World Prison Brief. The Institute for Criminal Policy Research is based at Birkbeck, University of London.
It conducts research on all aspects of criminal justice, including international comparative research on prisons, and hosts the World Prison Brief online database on prison populations worldwid.