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PLU.  “Previously, students at PLU who were interested in careers in policing, law, corrections, and victim services majored in sociology and unofficially specialized in criminal justice by selecting existing courses such as Delinquency and Juvenile Justice, Deviance, and Criminal Justice to complete their sociology major,” explains professor Kate Luther, chair of the newly redesigned Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. “The new major in criminal justice formalizes these aspects of the

passion for juvenile law in a “Juvenile Delinquency” class with Kate Luther, associate professor and chair of sociology. “I never thought about it much before that, but I fell in love with the class and the content, even though it was really difficult for me,” Sullivan said. “I think that it sparked something that I was passionate about.” Sullivan carried that passion throughout her years at PLU. Although she initially wasn’t sure about law school, Donna Miller, director of Career Connections at PLU

Endowed Internship Allows Lute a Full-Circle Vocational First Step Posted by: Zach Powers / August 6, 2015 Image: Patricia Krise, Jessica Milian ’15 and PLU President Thomas W Krise at the Gonyea House. [Photo by John Struzenberg ’16/PLU] August 6, 2015 By Matthew Salzano ’18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (August 6, 2015) — Thanks to a major award, one Lute is spending her summer in a juvenile detention center — as a mentor who is paying it forward.Jessica Milian ’15 is the second

you to out-of-this-world professional experiences through internships! PLU even offers scholarships for internship-related expenses so you can get the internship experience without worrying about funding. Downs is weighing a severely emaciated juvenile Golden Eagle about two weeks after he was first rescued. He was put on a high protein liquid diet and is currently still recovering at the wildlife rehabilitation center. Downs and another RMWA Employee are gavage feeding a severely emaciated

Lutes, local inmates share storytelling experience Posted by: Kari Plog / October 12, 2017 Image: Lutes make their way to a classroom at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor on April 21, 2017. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) October 12, 2017 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 13, 2017)- “We made a magazine!” Taryn Collis exclaimed to a group of Pacific Lutheran University students and several inmates at the Washington Corrections Center for

Careers in Criminal Justice Posted by: alemanem / February 28, 2019 February 28, 2019 On Tuesday, March 12th at 4pm in the Scandinavian Cultural Center there is going to be an alumni panel on careers in criminal justice. Panelists include Jennifer Danner (Crime Prevention Coordinator, Seattle Police Department), Bryan Johnson (Forensic Services Manager, Lakewood Police Department), John Neeb (Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office), Kyle Peart (Department of Corrections), and Rachel

a typescript covered with handwritten corrections under the name K.L. Hib. “Having spent the entire month studying his handwriting, I recognized right away that the corrections belonged to Broch. So why would he be writing handwritten corrections on someone else’s work?” Dr. Jenkins soon realized that the typescript did not belong to “another writer” like its box designation suggested. Jenkins decided to track down evidence of any other texts under the name K.L. Hib. The annotations of H.L. Kib

approach topics of sex, menstruation and female genitalia in thought-provoking and empowering ways.LEARN MORE PLU Women's Center Washington Corrections Center for Women IF Project Freedom Education Project Puget SoundThe decision to reinvent the show at PLU was a collaborative effort between student directors and Jennifer Smith, director of the Women’s Center. By incorporating students’ stories into the show, the cast and crew hope to broaden perspectives presented in the play. “We wanted to get more

transferred to RMWA from another rehab center who had discovered he was not releasable. Atosha developed an ulcer in his right eye which caused blindness. After being transferred to RMWA his eye had to be surgically removed. Downs and another RMWA Employee are gavage feeding a severely emaciated juvenile Golden Eagle that they had rescued a few days earlier. During gavage feeding, the tube is inserted into the stomach of the animal and they are fed a high protein liquid diet. Downs is administering

May 11, 2009 What to do with a whale skeleton? Dragging the arched five-foot jawbones of a gray whale out from the corner of a chicken coop in Lakewood, assistant professor of biology Mike Behrens saw the bones just didn’t match up. Laying out three of the jawbones, which once belonged to a juvenile eschrichtius robustus which washed up dead on an Olympia beach three years ago, Behrens noted that there should only be two. “I think we have a second whale here,” he laughed, as his two assistants