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Surveillance & SocietyKidnapping as a crime of (im)mobility can be understood as a social act of mutuality and reciprocity, where the interaction between kidnappers and kidnappees shapes a broader system of connected activities of surveillance, intimacy, control, and consent.
Camilo Tamayo Gomez
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Ethiopia's Legal Response to Kidnapping: Gaps and Challenges [PDF]
Mizan Law ReviewKidnapping is surging in Ethiopia. Cases of severe kidnapping that eventually resulted in the death of the victims and/or exorbitant ransom demands, reaching millions of birrs, are documented. Ethiopians are paying a terrible price for kidnappers.
Messay Asgedom Gobena
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Menace of Kidnapping and Challenges of Post Abduction Living [PDF]
, 2022 Kidnapping refers to crime of seizing, confining, abducting, or carrying away a person by force or fraud, often to subject him or her to involuntary servitude in an attempt to demand for a ransom. The paper looked at the concept of kidnapping, prevalence
Yakubu, S. Muhammad
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Intimate Crimes: Kidnapping, Gangs and Trust in Mexico City by Rolando Ochoa
Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2023 This is a review of the 2020 IASOC Prize Winner Intimate Crimes: Kidnapping, Gangs and Trust in Mexico City by Rolando Ochoa. Ochoa provides a masterful account of how private citizens understand risk, as kidnapping continues to be a significant problem
R. V. Gundur
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Sensors, 2019 This paper proposes a novel multi-sensor-based indoor global localization system integrating visual localization aided by CNN-based image retrieval with a probabilistic localization approach. The global localization system consists of three parts: coarse
Song Xu, Wusheng Chou, Hongyi Dong
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KIDNAPPING AS AN OBJECT OF APPLIED RESEARCH
Статистика и экономика, 2016 Modern society is not capable to get rid of such a serious problem as the kidnapping. Its solution at least in the future is difcult to imagine without a comprehensive quantitative characterization of kidnapping, which is impossible without reliable ...
Mikhail V. Karmanov
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Curbing Kidnapping in Nigeria: An Exploration of Strategic Peace Building Tools
Africa’s Public Service Delivery & Performance Review, 2014 The increasing growth of kidnapping inNigeria has become a strong threat tonational peace and security. It has affected the national image of the state and has eaten deep into every region and segmentof the nation.
Kelechi Johnmary Ani +1 more
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Taking of hostages as an offense in international law and Serbian regulations [PDF]
Temida, 2012 In the development of international relations, hostage-taking was carried out as an insurance against fraud, not keeping obligations, or according to the rules of war law.
Cmiljanić Bajo M.
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The Impact of Kidnapping for Ransom on Nigeria’s Image [PDF]
, 2023 Kidnapping is a long-standing global phenomenon, which is not unique to any continent or country. However, it has taken on a new dimension in the 21st century with the development of kidnapping for ransom.
Oladipo, Temidayo David +1 more
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PREVALENCE AND CONSEQUENCES OF KIDNAPPING IN SOUTHERN TARABA STATE, NIGERIA
International Studies Journal, 2021 Kidnapping is one of the security challenges Nigeria is faced with and Taraba State is not an exception. Extant literature on kidnapping have mostly captured the discourse on kidnapping from the prism of its historization and causes with paucity of ...
YIKWABS PETER YIKWAB +3 more
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