Learning from the Past, Living in the Present: Understanding Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930
Title: Learning from the Past, Living in the Present: Understanding Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930 Year: 2002 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Issue: Volume 92, Issue 3/4, pp 437-554 Excerpt: The Chicago Historical Homicide Project at Northwestern University School of Law began with the discovery and recent availability of a […]
Criminal Homicide in Western Nigeria 1966-1972
Title: Criminal Homicide in Western Nigeria 1966-1972 Year: 1974 Author: Leigh Bienen Publisher: Journal of African Law Issue: Volume 18, No. 1, pp. 57-78 Description: This research began as an attempt to add a codicil to the work on homicide done by Paul Bohannan in the 1950s. Although Bohannan looked at events in the colonial […]
A Good Murder
Title:A Good Murder Year: 1993 Author: Leigh B. Bienen Publisher: Fordham Urban Law Journal Issue: Vol. 20, No. 3, Article 15, pp. 585-607 Description: This essay will describe a pattern which emerged when researchers examined all homicide cases in the state of New Jersey during the years immediately after the reimposition of capital punishment in […]