Welser, Howard T.
PART TIME FACULTY
Hall, Aileen
AFFILIATED FACULTY
SEMI-RETIRED FACULTY
Bruce Hoffman
Assistant 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 and Social Control
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. 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. Forthcoming 2008. "Conquest Traditions, Conflict Transformation, and the Cultural Boundaries of Criminology: Rigoberta Menchú and Criminological Science." Forthcoming 2008 in Contemporary Justice Review 11:4.
Hoffman, Bruce, and Michelle Brown. Forthcoming 2008. “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, and Ashley Demyan, eds. 2008. Teaching the Sociology of Deviance. 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.