Dustin Pardini

Associate Professor Dustin Pardini is affiliated with Arizona State University's School of Criminology & Criminal Justice within the Watts College of Public Service & Community Solutions. His research focuses on antisocial behavior development, substance use, and callous-unemotional traits linked to psychopathy. He contributed to updating diagnostic criteria for conduct disorder in DSM-5 and ICD-11. Pardini led the Arizona Youth Survey (2018), assessing risky behaviors in adolescents across Arizona.

Education: PhD in Child Clinical Psychology from University of Alabama (2003). He teaches courses like 'Crime & Forensic Mental Health' and 'Special Topics' at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Research highlights include evaluating interventions for conduct-disordered youth and examining gun violence predictors among juveniles.

Key contributions include developing evidence-based screening tools for antisocial behaviors and analyzing socioeconomic factors influencing delinquency. He serves on multiple advisory boards, including the Lerner Commission Project and the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development.