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Biography
Norman Conti is a professor of sociology and the coordinator of Duquesne's Social
Justice Association. Along with six men serving life sentences at the State Correctional
Institution in Pittsburgh, Dr. Conti founded the Elsinore Bennu Think Tank for Restorative
Justice (EBTT). Together, they developed Police Training Inside-Out, a criminal justice
course that brings police recruits together to study as classmates with incarcerated
men. After the prison closed, the EBTT was reestablished on campus at Duquesne as
a weekly conference of community activists, returning citizens, artists, political
leaders and police officers. Dr. Conti has served as a Fellow in Duquesne's Center
for Community Engaged Teaching and Research and is a longtime member of the national
steering committee for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. His scholarly work
has appeared in The American Sociologist; Counter-Stories and Counter-Spaces; Dialogues
in Social Justice; Federal Sentencing Reporter; Handbook on Promoting Social Justice
in Education; Journal of Contemporary Ethnography; Journal of Public Scholarship in
Higher Education; Kalfou; The Police Journal; Police Practice & Research; Police Quarterly;
Policing & Society; The Prison Journal; Social Network Analysis; Studies in Symbolic
Interaction; and Voices From Criminal Justice.
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 2000M.A., Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 1998
B.A., Sociology & Administration of Justice, University of Pittsburgh, 1995