Pittaro, Michael

Michael Pittaro, PhD is a 28-year criminal justice veteran, highly experienced in working with criminal offenders. Before pursuing a career in higher education, Dr. Pittaro worked in corrections administration; has served as the Executive Director of a county outpatient drug and alcohol facility; and as Executive Director of a county drug and alcohol prevention agency.

Dr. Pittaro has been teaching at the university level (online and on-campus) for the past 15 years while also serving internationally as an author, editor, presenter, and subject matter expert.

Dr. Pittaro holds a BS in Criminal Justice (Who’s Who Among University Students – 1989); an MPA in Public Administration (Summa Cum Laude); and a PhD in criminal justice (4.0 GPA – Magna Cum Laude).

Dr. Pittaro has contributed to nearly 50 book and scholarly journal publications and serves on three International Editorial Advisory Boards, including the International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences, the International Journal of Cyber Criminology, and Elsevier Publishing. He has also served for the past three years as a program committee member for the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology and as a federal grant peer reviewer for the United States Department of Justice and National Institute of Justice. Dr. Pittaro also serves as a corrections subject matter expert with Pearson publishing, Savant Learning, McGraw Hill, Cengage Learning, and countless others. He is a regular contributor to In Public Safety, Corrections One, the Huffington Post, and is often interviewed on Tier Talk Internet radio.

My most recent article is generating quite a bit of attention. Over the past two weeks, nearly 2,000 have read the article. I wasn’t sure if there was a way to share it with our NCC criminal justice students.

I have another coming out this week pertaining to police officers killed in 2016 and then another (beginning of February) focusing on corruption within corrections using techniques of neutralization theory to explain why it’s occurring. Here is the article below:

Emotional Intelligence Benefits Correctional Officers - Dr Pittaro

Dr. Pittaro is a full time faculty member with American Military University, an adjunct professor with East Stroudsburg University and Northampton Community College, and serves as an adjunct professor with Bethel University teaching Police Officers and Corrections Officers.

He has presented at the International Conference to Combat Human Trafficking, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Conference, the Southern States Correctional Association Conference, the New Jersey American Corrections Association, and in November 2016, at the North Carolina American Corrections Association, and in June 2017 at the Ohio Juvenile Detention Administrator’s Conference.

He resides in Nazareth, Pennsylvania with his two sons (Dakota and Darrian).