Queensland Faculty of Forensic dinner

Danielle Arlanda Harris, PhD is a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council (2025-2029) and an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She has more than 25 years' experience working in the US, the UK, and Australia primarily in the area of research, treatment, and prevention of child sexual abuse. She worked for the Lucy Faithfull Foundation (UK) at a residential facility for men convicted of sexual offences. For the next 15 years she worked in Maryland, Maine, Washington, Massachusetts and California as an academic and expert witness. While living in North America, she collaborated with the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Massachusetts Treatment Centre for Sexually Dangerous Persons, and the California Sex Offender Management Board. She received a prestigious grant from the Guggenheim Foundation to fund her ground breaking mixed methods empirical study of desistance from sexual offending (which included interviews with nearly 100 men convicted of sexual offences). She served on the National Clinical Reference Group of the National Office for Child Safety and regularly consults with law enforcement, corrections, and other government agencies. Her recent research has been funded by ANROWS, Westpac, and the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse.

She has published over 50 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has given more than 70 presentations at international conferences. In 2019, her first book (Desistance from Sexual Offending) received the Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology Book Award. Her Future Fellowship (Australian Research Council) is entitled: "The Ripple Effect: Understanding and Preventing the Collateral Consequences of Sex Offender Legislation on Families."