Kidnapping

• Author : Diana M. Concannon
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 29 August 2011

Kidnapping: An Investigator's Guide to Profiling is based on a three-part analysis of 100 randomly selected kidnapping cases prosecuted in the United States that have survived Supreme Court appeal. The results of the analysis are incorporated into each chapter as part of the exploration of the inductive profile of each subtype, thereby offering a statistically based tool that can inform investigative strategies and the allocation of limited resources. The analysis includes standardized input from four levels of professional law enforcement including

• Author : Susan O'Brien
• Publisher : Infobase Publishing
• Release : 26 January 2023

According to the US Department of Justice, more than 250,000 children are abducted each year. This book explains the types of kidnappings, details government and law enforcement efforts to prevent and solve them, and explores the many practices and programs, such as the AMBER Alert, to help protect children.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 26 January 2023

• Author : Brian John Heard
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 01 December 2014

Terrorist groups and organized crime cartels pose an increasing threat of kidnapping throughout many regions in the word. At the same time, international travel has become more commonplace for both business and leisure purposes. Kidnapping and Abduction: Minimizing the Threat and Lessons in Survival provides a practical guide on the precautions travelers can take to avoid being kidnapped or derail a kidnapping attempt in progress. In the event this cannot be avoided, the book supplies advice on how to ensure

• Author : Patricia M. Hoff
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 26 January 1985

• Author : Rolando Ochoa
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 02 October 2019

Mexico has one of the highest kidnapping rates in the world. Intimate Crimes outlines the history of kidnapping in Mexico City by constructing a narrative of this crime based on extensive qualitative research on gangs, policing and other crime-related policies. The book also analyses the effect of kidnapping - and crime more broadly - on how communities experience the city, as well as the strategies put in place by potential kidnapping victims to deal with the threat of being victimised

• Author : David Fiske
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 18 January 2016

Kidnapping was a lucrative crime in antebellum America, and many American citizens—especially free blacks—were abducted for profit. This book reveals the untold stories of the captured. • Features portraits, sketches, and images of documents and newspaper articles related to kidnapping • Identifies the numerous factors that led to the lucrative business of kidnapping • Describes the physical and psychological subduing of victims • Includes the perspectives of those who tried to help: educators, crusaders, rescuers, and cooperative slave owners

• Author : Maureen Dabbagh
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 08 December 2011

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice reported an average of 200,000 cases of parental kidnapping each year. More than just the byproduct of a nasty custody dispute, parental kidnapping—defined as one parent taking his or her child and denying access of the child to the other parent—represents a form of child abuse that has sometimes resulted in the sale, abandonment and even death of children. This candid exploration of parental kidnapping in America from the eighteenth century to

• Author : Robert G. Picard,Hannah Storm
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 22 March 2016

The vulnerability of journalists to kidnappings was starkly illustrated by the killing of James Foley and Steven Sotloff by Islamic militants in 2014. Their murder underscored the risks taken by journalists and news organisations trying to cover developments in dangerous regions of the world and has forced news enterprises to more clearly prepare for and confront issues of safety. This book explores the complex organisational issues surrounding the capture or kidnapping of journalists in areas of conflict and risk. It explores

• Author : Michael Anthony Ross
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 26 January 2023

Recounts a famous kidnapping that took place in New Orleans in 1870, in which a seventeen-month-old white child was taken by two African-American women, and the resulting public hysteria that led to racial tensions, political divisions, and false accusations and arrests.

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 26 January 1993

• Author : Benjamin J. Kaplan
• Publisher : Yale University Press
• Release : 28 October 2014

In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When she is arrested, fellow Catholics stage an armed raid to free her from detention. These dramatic events of 1762 triggered a cycle of violence, starting a kind of religious war in the village and its surrounding region. Contradicting our current understanding, this war erupted at the height of the Age of

• Author : Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 26 August 2014

During the year that the Stanley family spends living near Florence, Amanda boasts once too often of her wealthy father in America and the result is a kidnapping involving all the Stanley children.

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Child and Human Development
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 26 January 1979

• Author : John E. O'Rourke
• Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
• Release : 26 January 2023

On a spring morning in Morristown in 1992, authorities discovered a car idling in a driveway with the door open and the driver missing. After they learned the driver was Sidney Reso, the president of Exxon International, the FBI joined the investigation. Over the next two months, law enforcement received cryptic communications that led to a cat-and-mouse chase for those responsible. Retired cop Arthur Seale and his wife, Irene, demanded one of the largest ransoms in U.S. history, and authorities