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Bound to be grooms: the imbrication of economy, ecology, and bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 2020This article explores intersections among gender, violence and socio-economic insecurities through examining the practice of women’s abduction for forced marriage in rural Kyrgyzstan.
Elena Kim, F. Karioris
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The impact of the kingpin strategy on extortion and kidnapping
Criminology & Criminal JusticeThe ‘kingpin’ strategy focuses on dismantling criminal groups by apprehending their leaders. However, existing evidence indicates that removing a criminal leader may lead to a surge in organised crime-related homicides, and to spatial displacement of ...
Patricio R. Estévez-Soto +1 more
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Taking Civilians: Terrorist Kidnapping in Civil War
International Studies QuarterlyWhy do insurgents resort to kidnapping in civil war? What explains variation in the selection and intensity of the tactic over time and space? Despite an increase in the use of kidnapping over time, existing research has yet to develop an explanation ...
Blair Welsh
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The Oxygen of Publicity: Explaining U.S. Media Coverage of International Kidnapping
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2020What explains U.S. media coverage of Americans kidnapped abroad? While some hostages receive national media attention, others hardly make the local news.
Daniel A. Gilbert
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Use of kidnapping and extortion as a tool for financing terrorism: the case of the PKK
, 2020This qualitative study focuses on the use of extortion and kidnapping for ransom as sources of financing terrorism by the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, which is popularly known by its acronym ‘PKK’.
Mutlu Koseli +3 more
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Militancy and violence as a catalyst to kidnapping in Nigeria
International Journal of Police Science and Management, 2019This study examines the concept of militancy and violence as a catalyst for kidnapping in Nigeria. The study acknowledges that there may be violent and non-violent militancy, but kidnapping is always forceful and violent in nature.
E. Chinwokwu, C. E. Michael
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Marriage traditions and investment in education: The case of bride kidnapping
, 2020The cultural practice of bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan may alter the returns to education for young women in an ambiguous direction due to two competing effects.
Dana Bazarkulova, Janice Compton
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1997
Abstract Few crimes capture our imagination as completely as child kidnapping. We are both fascinated and revolted, seeing in each victim our own child, in each bereaved parent ourselves, and in each kidnapper a monster striking straight at the heart of the family and our society. Kidnapping is a modern morality play, the innocence of
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Abstract Few crimes capture our imagination as completely as child kidnapping. We are both fascinated and revolted, seeing in each victim our own child, in each bereaved parent ourselves, and in each kidnapper a monster striking straight at the heart of the family and our society. Kidnapping is a modern morality play, the innocence of
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‘I Went through Hell’: Strategies for Kidnapping and Victims’ Experiences in Nigeria
Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 2019Understanding the experiences of the victims of kidnapping when in captivity can provide useful data for designing public safety behavior programs. Such experiences when probed more deeply expose the trajectories of movements to kidnappers’ den and ...
Oludayo Tade, U. Ojedokun, A. Aderinto
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