Mary Tuck, CBE (née McDermott: 5 May 1928 – 20 October 1996) was a British criminologist, psychologist and civil servant.
Hers was a devout Roman Catholic family and she attended the Convent School of Notre Dame, where her aunt was the headmistress and her mother a maths teacher.
Mary studied at the University of Liverpool for a year and through an open scholarship at St Anne's College, Oxford (1946–49).
[1] She received her second degree in social psychology from the London School of Economics and was influenced by the ideas of American psychologist Martin Fishbein.
[4] Tuck continued her prison-related work after retirement and was a member of Lord Woolf's inquiry to investigate the 1990 Strangeways Prison riot.