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A Gender Perspective of Migrant Kidnapping in Mexico
Victims and Offenders, 2020Despite its frequency in Mexico, research on migrant kidnapping is scant. We estimate that up to 250,000 migrants may have been kidnapped between 2006 and 2018. Even less is known about women as perpetrators in kidnapping operations. Moreover, in Mexico,
Caitlyn Yates, Stephanie Leutert
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The Logic of Kidnapping in Civil War: Evidence from Colombia
American Political Science Review, 2022Why do some armed groups kidnap for ransom? Despite a dramatic spike in kidnappings by political groups over the last several decades, there are scant existing explanations for why groups use this tool of coercion.
Daniel A. Gilbert
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Kidnap insurance and its impact on kidnapping outcomes [PDF]
Public Choice, 2012 In the developing world, kidnapping is relatively common, and a market for kidnap insurance has arisen in response. We provide a model that allows us to analyze how kidnap insurance affects the interaction between the kidnapper and the victim’s family when both are self-interested and have complete knowledge.
Alexander Fink, Mark Pingle
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Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2023
Kidnapping is a common tactic used by insurgent groups. However, why insurgents commit kidnappings remains insufficiently understood. Based on 1,386 group-year observations of 140 insurgents between 1998 and 2012, we analyze conditions driving the within-
Lu Liu, M. Eisner
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Kidnapping is a common tactic used by insurgent groups. However, why insurgents commit kidnappings remains insufficiently understood. Based on 1,386 group-year observations of 140 insurgents between 1998 and 2012, we analyze conditions driving the within-
Lu Liu, M. Eisner
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Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2021
Limited literature exists on how to improve classroom concentration (CC) of survivors of kidnapping. The current study extends the literature in this direction through a quasi-experiment involving 470 schoolchildren (SC) who survived kidnapping in the ...
Amaka B. Ikechukwu-Ilomuanya +6 more
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Limited literature exists on how to improve classroom concentration (CC) of survivors of kidnapping. The current study extends the literature in this direction through a quasi-experiment involving 470 schoolchildren (SC) who survived kidnapping in the ...
Amaka B. Ikechukwu-Ilomuanya +6 more
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Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2021
The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of visual multimedia in promoting security awareness, alertness and behavioural intention towards kidnapping prevention measures among secondary school students.
E. Obodo +5 more
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The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of visual multimedia in promoting security awareness, alertness and behavioural intention towards kidnapping prevention measures among secondary school students.
E. Obodo +5 more
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Criminal displacement in Mexico city's metropolitan area: The case of kidnapping
, 2021This paper proposes a broad approach to the study of criminal behavior through time using states as the units of analysis. In doing so, it argues that when a specific crime is targeted in one state, a criminal displacement effect in neighboring states ...
R. Massa, Gustavo Fondevila
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Deep Samplable Observation Model for Global Localization and Kidnapping
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020Global localization and kidnapping are two challenging problems in robot localization. The popular method, Monte Carlo Localization (MCL) addresses the problem by iteratively updating a set of particles with a “sampling-weighting” loop.
Runjian Chen +5 more
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2014
Your bed shall be the moorcock’s, and your life shall be like the hunted deer’s, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons.’ Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked off the west coast of Scotland, David Balfour finds himself fleeing for his life in the dangerous company of Jacobite outlaw and suspected assassin Alan Breck ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, Ian Duncan
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Your bed shall be the moorcock’s, and your life shall be like the hunted deer’s, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons.’ Tricked out of his inheritance, shanghaied, shipwrecked off the west coast of Scotland, David Balfour finds himself fleeing for his life in the dangerous company of Jacobite outlaw and suspected assassin Alan Breck ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, Ian Duncan
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2015
The practice of kidnapping for ransom, a pred- atory crime carried out mostly by criminal organizations, is a salient phenomenon in many regions of the world. It causes serious harm not only to victims and their families but also to private and social capital.
Marco, Vannini +2 more
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The practice of kidnapping for ransom, a pred- atory crime carried out mostly by criminal organizations, is a salient phenomenon in many regions of the world. It causes serious harm not only to victims and their families but also to private and social capital.
Marco, Vannini +2 more
openaire +4 more sources