VISTING FACULTY & INSTRUCTORS
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) 593-0277
Office: Bentley Annex 135
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 1000: Introduction to Sociology
Soc 2610: Deviant Behavior
Soc 3600: Criminology
Soc 3660: Punishment & Society
Soc 4640/5640: Law in Societies
Soc 4680: Crimes Against Humanity
Soc 4950: Sociology of Science: Senior Capstone
Soc 6030: Seminar in Crime and Deviance
Soc 6110: Seminar in International Justice & Transnational Activism
Selected Publications:
Hoffman, Bruce, and Michelle Brown. 2009. “Staging an Execution: The Media at McVeigh.” 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.
Beckett, Katherine and Bruce Hoffman. 2005. "Challenging Medicine: Law, Resistance, and the Cultural Politics of Childbirth." Law & Society Review 39: 125-70.