Dr. Daly is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Brisbane. She directed a major research project on conferencing in South Australia in 1998-99, and has begun a second major project on the feminist and indigenous/race politics of restorative justice in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Among her publications are Gender, Crime, and Punishment (Yale University Press, 1994); an edited collection, with Lisa Maher, Criminology at the Crossroads: Feminist Readings in Crime and Justice (Oxford University Press, 1998); and a forthcoming text, edited with Andrew Goldsmith and Mark Israel, Crime and Justice: An Australian Textbook (Law Book Company, 2002).

She is the Director of a Program on Restorative Justice, with the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance Griffith), and an Associate of the Australian Institute of Criminology.