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  1. Crash-landings of flying witches in Ghana: Grand mystical feats or diagnosable psychiatric illnesses?

    Article • Transcultural Psychiatry, January 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  2. Sororicides in Ghana: A Study of Homicidal Aggression Against Sisters

    Article • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  3. Characteristics of Elderly Suicides in Ghana

    Article • OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  4. When a Wife Says “No”: Wife Sexual Refusal as a Factor in Husband–Wife Homicides in Ghana

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, November 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  5. Commercial Transactions in Children: The Case of Ghana

    Article • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, July 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  6. Matricide in Ghana: Victims, Offenders, and Offense Characteristics

    Article • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, May 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  7. To Reinstate or to Not Reinstate? An Exploratory Study of Student Perspectives on the Death Penalty in Michigan

    Article • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, April 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  8. Suicide and Mortuary Beliefs and Practices of the Akan of Ghana

    Article • OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, August 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  9. Gendered injustice: A comparative analysis of witchcraft beliefs and witchcraft-related violence in Ghana and Nepal

    Article • International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, October 2014, Academic Journals

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  10. Intimate Partner Femicide–Suicides in Ghana

    Article • Violence Against Women, September 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  11. Confessions: Suicidal ideation on a Ghanaian radio program

    Article • Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology, July 2014, Academic Journals

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  12. Homicide–Suicide in Ghana

    Article • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, December 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  13. Criminal Prosecution of Suicide Attempt Survivors in Ghana

    Article • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, August 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  14. Better dead than dishonored: Masculinity and male suicidal behavior in contemporary Ghana

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  15. Patterns of Female Suicidal Behavior in Ghana

    Article • Psychological Reports, October 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  16. Child witch hunts in contemporary Ghana

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  17. Epidemiologic Characteristics of Suicidal Behavior in Contemporary Ghana

    Article • Crisis, January 2011, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  18. Criminalizing Rape Within Marriage

    Article • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, June 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  19. Spousal homicides in contemporary Ghana

    Article • Journal of Criminal Justice, July 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  20. Witchcraft Themes in Popular Ghanaian Music

    Article • Popular Music & Society, July 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  21. Husbands Who Kill Their Wives

    Article • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, July 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  22. Women who kill their husbands: mariticides in contemporary Ghana

    Article • Aggressive Behavior, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  23. Vigilante homicides in contemporary Ghana

    Article • Journal of Criminal Justice, September 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  24. Witchcraft Accusations and Female Homicide Victimization in Contemporary Ghana

    Article • Violence Against Women, April 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  25. Men who kill their own children: paternal filicide incidents in contemporary Fiji

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, May 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  26. Homicide-Suicides in Fiji: Offense Patterns, Situational Factors, and Sociocultural Contexts

    Article • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, March 2003, Wiley

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  27. When Parents Kill: An Analysis of Filicides in Fiji

    Article • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, April 2001, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  28. Maternal infanticides in Fiji

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, December 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  29. Female-perpetrated spousal homicides The case of Fiji

    Article • Journal of Criminal Justice, March 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  30. Uxoricide in Fiji

    Article • Violence Against Women, November 1999, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah

  31. Spousal Homicides in Fiji

    Article • Homicide Studies, August 1999, SAGE Publications

    Professor Mensah Adinkrah