The Determination of Criminal Insanity in Western Nigeria
Title: The Determination of Criminal Insanity in Western Nigeria Year: 1976 Author: Leigh Bienen Publisher: The Journal of Modern African Studies Issue: Volume 14, No. 2, pp. 219-245 Description: This article grew out of a more detailed study of all tried cases of homicide in Western Nigeria from 1966 to I972. While reading more than […]
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 […]
The Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty
Year: 1988 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Issue: Volume 79, Issue 1, Article 6 Description: The Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty was published a few months before the United States Supreme Court handed down McCleskey v. Kemp, the case challenging the imposition of capital punishment in Georgia on the […]