PART TIME FACULTY
VISITING FACULTY
AFFILIATED FACULTY
EMERITUS FACULTY
Bruce Hoffman
Arts & Sciences Dean's Outstanding Teacher Award 2008
Associate Professor
Ph.D.: University of Washington, 2004
Contact Information:
Phone: (740) 597-2589
Office: Bentley Annex 107
E-mail: hoffmanb@ohio.edu
Websites:
Personal Site; Crimetheory.com
Areas of Specialization:
Criminological Theory, Law and Society, Science Studies,
Social Movements, Social Theory
Courses Taught:
Soc 101: Introduction to Sociology
Soc 362: Criminology
Soc 464/564: Law in Societies
Soc 406: Sociology of Science (Senior Sociology Capstone)
Soc 406A: Crimes against Humanity (Senior Criminology Capstone)
Soc 603: Seminar in Crime and Deviance
Hist 269U: Jewish Culture & Civilization (Sections on Jewish Philosophy & Cultural Responses to Modernity)
Selected Publications:
Hoffman, Bruce, and Michelle Brown. Forthcoming 2009. “Staging an Execution: The Media at McVeigh.” Forthcoming in K. Hayward and M. Presdee, eds., Cultural Criminology and the Image: Framing Crime in Late Modernity. London: Cavendish Press.
Hoffman, Bruce. 2009. "Conquest Traditions, Conflict Transformation, and the Cultural Boundaries of Criminology: Rigoberta Menchú and Criminological Science." Contemporary Justice Review 12: 171-189.
Hoffman, Bruce. 2008. “Minding the Gap: Legal Ideals and Strategic Action in State Legislative Hearings.” Law & Social Inquiry 33: 89-126.
Hoffman, Bruce. 2008. “The Science and Politics of Reducing Child Victimization.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 24: 103-113.
Hoffman, Bruce, and Ashley Demyan, eds. 2008. Teaching and Learning about Deviance: A Resource Guide. Sixth Edition. Washington, D.C., American Sociological Association.
Hoffman, Bruce, and Thomas Vander Ven. 2007. "Mother Blame and Delinquency Claims: Maternal Responsibility and Juvenile Delinquency in Expert Discourses." In Youth Violence and Delinquency Interventions edited by Marilyn D. McShane and Frank P. Williams III. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Beckett, Katherine and Bruce Hoffman. 2005. "Challenging Medicine: Law, Resistance, and the Cultural Politics of Childbirth." Law & Society Review 39: 125-70.