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Departments of Society, Culture & Justice/Criminal Justice
Casey 3 West
900 Broadway
Seattle, Washington
E-mail: dbowen@seattleu.edu
B.A., cum laude, Boston University, Boston, MA 1987; J.D., cum laude, State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Buffalo School of Law, 1990; Moot Court Board. Ph.D. University of Washington, Department of Sociology, 2002.
Dr. Bowen currently teaches Sociology and Criminal Justice courses at Seattle University, specializing in research methods, deviance, and family and society as well as teaching at the law school. She continues to conduct sociological research in the area of negotiations and plea bargaining as well as acting as a consultant in various consumer and family law cases nationally. Professor Bowen has significant experience in the consumer law arena. Prior to earning her doctorate, she headed the consumer mediation and fraud department of the national headquarters of Call For Action, an international nonprofit consumer group. She was instrumental in working with the FBI and US Attorney Generals Office to identify and dismantle the largest telemarketing fraud circuit in the Western United States in 1994. She has successfully litigated and negotiated many consumer “unfair” business practices and telemarketing fraud cases. In addition, Dr. Bowen litigated a number of complex high profile RICO and family law cases while an associate at the law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge in Washington, D.C.