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Ronald J. Pestritto is an Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and an M.A. in Politics from the Claremont Graduate School. Prior to teaching at the University of Dallas, he has held teaching positions at Saint Vincent College, Azusa Pacific University, and Woodbury University. Professor Pestritto is the author of Founding the Criminal Law: Punishment and Political Thought in the Origins of America (Northern Illinois University Press, 1999). He has received an Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant, and was named a Salvatori Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Additionally, Dr. Pestritto has served as a consultant to the Assembly Office of Research for the California Legislature and as an Intelligence Research Specialist at the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Dr. Pestritto’s research interests include American politics and public policy, Criminal Justice, and American political thought.


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