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Norman Conti is a professor of sociology at Duquesne University, specializing in police socialization, social psychology, and restorative justice. 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), which created and developed the program Police Training Inside-Out. After the prison closed, the EBTT was reestablished on campus at Duquesne as a weekly conference of community activists and ex-offenders for developing ongoing programs to reduce recidivism and to address the needs of vulnerable youth. Dr. Conti is the Pierre Shouvere Endowed Chair as well as the coordinator of Duquesne University’s Social Justice Association, and a member of the national steering committee for the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program.