• Associate Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University

Associate Professor Danielle Arlanda Harris is the Deputy Director of the Griffith Criminology Institute and the Deputy Head of School (Research) for the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. 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 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). Since returning to Australia (2016) her innovative research has been funded by Westpac, ANROWS, and the National Centre for Action on Child Sexual Abuse. She was recently awarded a Future Fellowship through the Australian Research Council (2025-2029).

• 2023–present Associate Professor, Griffith University
• 2019–2023 Senior Lecturer, Griffith University
• 2016–2019 Lecturer, Griffith University
• 2014–2016 Associate Professor, San Jose State University
• 2009–2014 Assistant Professor, San Jose State University
• 2004–2009 Sessional Lecturer, San Jose State University

• 2009 Griffith University, PhD
• 2004 University of Maryland, MSc (Criminology and Behavioral Science)
• 2001 Queensland University of Technology, BA (Justice Studies) (Hons)

• 2025 Unintended Consequences of Dangerous Sex Offender Legislation Role: Future Fellowship Funding Source: Australian Research Council

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