Michael Pittaro is the Assistant Director of Programs for Justice Works Youth Care and also serves as an adjunct criminal justice professor at Cedar Crest College (both in Allentown, PA). Michael holds a masters degree in public administration and a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Kutztown University, Pennsylvania and is currently pursuing a PhD in Criminal Justice from Capella University. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen scholarly publications and currently serves on the International Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences.