PhD, University of Massachusetts, 1983

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Biography

Kathleen Daly is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University (Brisbane). She writes on gender, race, crime and justice; and on restorative, Indigenous, and international justice. Her book, Gender, Crime, and Punishment (1994) received the Michael Hindelang award from the American Society of Criminology. She published an edited collection (with Lisa Maher), Criminology at the Crossroads: Feminist Readings in Crime and Justice (1998) and is co-editor of Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology (2006). She travelled to Australia in 1995 as a Senior Fulbright Scholar to study restorative justice.  From 1998 to 2006, she received three major Australian Research Council (ARC) grants to direct a program of research on restorative justice and the race and gender politics of “new justice” practices in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.  In 2008, Professor Daly is launching an international project on innovative responses to sexual violence, also funded by the ARC (2008-2011). In addition to the books and edited collections, she has published over 60 articles in journals, edited collections, and law reviews. She is President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC), and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.   

Research Expertise

For nearly 30 years, Professor Kathleen Daly has been conducting research in the fields of sociology, criminology and criminal justice, women’s studies, and law, with interests in how social inequalities affect crime, victimisation, and justice practices. In the last decade, she has focused her research on restorative and Indigenous justice, and the appropriateness of “new justice” practices for domestic, sexual, and family violence. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, Professor Daly is interested in addressing moral and political questions about the character and qualities of justice, and the meanings of justice from the perspective of both victims and offenders.