Course Details

As a citizen in Washington State, you select judges and serve as jurors, you pay for police and public defenders, and you buy the razor wire and the food for our prisons. The criminal justice system is truly in your hands and its actions are carried out in your name. This course will explore these responsibilities through a series of lectures by specialists at the University and by those involved in Seattle’s criminal justice system (police, prosecuting attorneys, defense attorneys, Department of Corrections officials, and others). Students will attend a one-hour lecture each week and will be responsible for participation in discussions and for written responses to the lecture and the assigned reading.

This course is given jointly with Honors 231B, which is a collaborative course with the Post-Prison Education Program, whose students will attend the lectures.