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Education

Ph.D., University of Washington, 2004

Awards

Arts & Sciences Dean's Outstanding Teacher Award 2008

Research & Specialization

• Criminological Theory
• Law and Society
• Science Studies
• Social Movements
• Social Theory

Selected Grants

• Principal Investigator, ā€œReshaping and Modeling the Criminal Justice System through Science, Technology, and Systems Analysis,ā€ National Science Foundation ($146,057).
• Principal Investigator, "Citizen Crime Commissions, the Congress, and Criminal Justice Reform." Congressional Research Grant, Dirksen Congressional Center ($3,460).
• Principal Investigator, "Modeling the Criminal Justice System: Science and Technology in the 1967 President's Commission." Moody Foundation, LBJ Presidential Library ($2,815)

Courses Taught

• CAS 2500: Breaking the Law
• SOC 1000: Introduction to Sociology
• SOC 2610: Deviant Behavior
• SOC 3325/5325: Access to Justice
• 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 Haley Duschinski. 2020. ā€œBetween Freedom and Justice: Popular Protest and Jurisdictional Contestation of Militarized Governance in Indian-Controlled Kashmir.ā€ Social & Legal Studies. 29 (5): 650-78.

Hoffman, Bruce. 2016. ā€œBirth Activism, Law, and the Organization of Independent Midwifery in Oregon.ā€ Oregon Historical Quarterly (Special Issue: Regulating Birth). 117 (2): 198-231.

Hoffman, Bruce, and Haley Duschinski. 2014. ā€œContestations over Law, Power, and Representation in Kashmir Valley.ā€ Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 16 (4): 501-30.

Hoffman, Bruce. 2012. ā€œReview of Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa by Kamari Maxine Clarke.ā€ British Journal of Criminology 52: 218-21.

Duschinski, Haley, and Bruce Hoffman. 2011. ā€œOn the Frontlines of the Law: Legal Advocacy and Political Protest by Lawyers in Contested Kashmir.ā€ Anthropology Today 27 (5): 8-12.

Duschinski, Haley, and Bruce Hoffman. 2011. ā€œEveryday Violence, Institutional Denial, and Struggles for Justice in Kashmir.ā€ Race & Class 52: 44-70.

Hoffman, Bruce, and Michelle Brown. 2010. ā€œStaging an Execution: The Media at McVeigh.ā€ In Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image, edited by K. Hayward and M. Presdee. London: Routledge-Cavendish Press.

Hoffman, Bruce. 2009. ā€œMobilizing Criminology: The Boundaries of Criminological Science and the Politics of Genocide ā€” Review of Darfur and the Crime of Genocide by John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond.ā€ Review Symposium in Theoretical Criminology 13: 481-85.

Hoffman, Bruce. 2009. ā€œConquest Traditions, Conflict Transformation, and the Cultural Boundaries of Criminology: Rigoberta MenchĆŗ and Criminological Science.ā€ Contemporary Justice Review 12: 171-89.

Hoffman, Bruce. 2008. ā€œMinding the Gap: Legal Ideals and Strategic Action in State Legislative Hearings.ā€ Law & Social Inquiry 33: 89-126.

Hoffman, Bruce. 2008. ā€œThe Science and Politics of Reducing Child Victimization.ā€ Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 24: 103-13.

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. ā€œChallenging Medicine: Law, Resistance, and the Cultural Politics of Childbirth.ā€ Law & Society Review 39: 125-70.

• Reprinted 2014 in The Law & Society Reader II, edited by Erik Larson and Patrick Schmidt. New York: New York University Press.