Stephen Wulff
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Stephen Wulff
Assistant Professor
Stephen Wulff (Sociology, College of Arts & Sciences) is a criminologist and sociolegal scholar with a PhD in Sociology. His research and teaching interests include policing, critical criminology, punishment, law and society, urban sociology, and social movements. His dissertation, “Police Misconduct, Monetary Sanctions, and Insurance Models in the Modern Police Accountability Era,” investigated existing and potential insurance models to increase police accountability and reduce misconduct. His work has been published in Law & Social Inquiry (official journal of the American Bar Foundation), the International Journal of Criminology & Sociology, and The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements. His sole-authored article recently published in Law & Social Inquiry analyzes the innovative but ultimately unsuccessful 2016 ballot campaign of the Committee for Professional Policing, a police accountability group in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which attempted to make Minneapolis the first city nationwide to require police to carry professional liability insurance. Currently, he is co-authoring a report with Arizona State University’s Center for Work and Democracy on the financial costs stemming from George Floyd’s murder. His personal academic website can be found at: www.StephenWulff.net.
Education
Ph.D. 2024 University of Minnesota
Interest Area
Critical Criminology; Punishment; Policing and Social Order; Law & Society; Social Movements; Urban Sociology
Courses
Undergraduate Courses:
- Criminology
- Criminal Justice
- Policing America
- Punishment and Society
- Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice
Graduate Courses:
- Foundations of Criminology
- Criminal Justice Theories
- Law and Society
Publications
- Wulff, Stephen. 2022. “Flipping the ‘New Penology’ Script: Police Misconduct Insurance, Grassroots Activism and Risk Management-Based Reform.” Law & Social Inquiry 47(1):162-204.
- Wulff, Stephen, Mary Bernstein, and Verta Taylor. 2015. “New Theoretical Directions from the Study of Gender and Sexuality Movements: Collective Identity, Multi-Institutional Politics, and Emotions.” Pp. 108-30 in The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements, edited by D. della Porta and M. Diani. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
- Bernstein, Mary, and Stephen Wulff. 2014. “Community Policing, Workplace Structure and Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men and their Civil Liberties.” International Journal of Criminology & Sociology 3:284-99.