Kidnapping: A major problem
How would people feel if their son, daughter or their best friend was kidnapped? Kidnapping is a very serious felony. There are conventions to help prevent kidnapping around the world. Kidnapping is bad because it can be traumatizing for the victim at any age. Kidnapping is usually caused by a few things.
People all around the world wonder about one thing and one thing only. The real question is, why do people commit the crime of kidnapping? “Kidnapping usually occurs because of divorce and unfairness” (Gale). The reason this happens to many children is because Americans do not have enough of communication. This means if they are the person who commits the crime, they will be sentenced to nine years in prison. Therefore, many states has activated special laws for carjacking. So, “Legislatures have passed statutes and courts have fashioned rules to prevent and detect double jeopardy in kidnapping cases” (Gale). Therefore, if they kidnap someone twice, they can be charged with double jeopardy. Double jeopardy is where a citizen cannot be charged with the same case twice.
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Both parents should love their child or children equally, but when a divorce occurs, it puts a lot of stress on the child. It is also stressful for the parents, because one of them will not get full custody of the child, and that is hard when there is much love for a child, equally. There are multiple ways to regain custody. Talk with Child Services and a lawyer and there is a possibility something will work out. If a divorce occurs, one of the parents gets more custody than the other. This usually causes unfairness, which leads to kidnapping. The fairly small children who get kidnapped, do not know any better. Adults have ways of lying to the small children. They lie and tell the young child that they are supposed to take them home or go with them. “Many adults who kidnap, claim multiple children as their own”
Adapting to life after being held hostage or kidnapped can be just as difficult as abruptly leaving it. According to the American
A book titled Taken, by Edward Bloor is a fascinating story of adventure and kidnapping that is set in the year 2035. In this futuristic book, kidnapping is a rather common practice. Children that are raised by very rich families are often the ones that are kidnapped, or "taken" because the parents could provide more ransom money. For this reason, all rich children would move to highly secured neighborhoods, and hire butlers that doubled as security guards. The children were then required to take classes on what to do if they were taken.
This study examines the research that initially began on October 28, 2000 and spanned through to October 31, 2009. If a human trafficking case occurred in the US, with the victim being under the age of 18, and at least one arrested, indicted or convicted felon, their case would be filed in the data analysis report. This research resulted in the finding of 115 separate incidents of human trafficking, involving at least 153 victims and 215 felons or perpetrators, 117 (53.4%) of them being convicted of their heinous actions. Each individual case consisted of anywhere between 1 to 9 victims of trafficking. 90% of these victims were females between the ages of 5 to 17 years who were held captive from less than 6 months to 5 years. 25 (16.3%) of these minors were exploited through some type of false promise and 15 (9.8%) were kidnapped. 34 (22.2%) of the victims were abused through com...
For some this term instantly brought up found or possibly unfound memories of the movie Double Jeopardy starring Tommy Lee Jones and for others the legal definition. See, the Fifth Amendment of the U.S Constitution under the Double Jeopardy Clause states,
The double jeopardy Act is supposed to protect a defendant who in this case has not been found guilty of a crime not to be tried a second time for the same crime by the same sovereign state. The act is therefore supposed to protect the defendant who in this case has lost much in terms of time, money and emotionally during the trial to start rebuilding his or her life without the fear of being prosecuted a second time.
On August 23rd, 1973, in Stockholm, Sweden, four hostages were held captive after a botched bank robbery and kept there for six days. Throughout these six days the four hostages grew a strange bond with their captor. The captor allowed his captives to call their family, kept them warm when they were cold and even let them out of the vault they were kept in when they said they were claustrophobic. This strange relationship that grew in this short amount later became studied and was widely known as Stockholm syndrome. It has been looked at as one of the smartest survival methods for kidnappings. Stockholm syndrome can be seen in many cases around the world when it comes to kidnapping and happens to one in every four kidnappings that occur, states
Human trafficking is a worldwide epidemic that seduces men, women, and children into slavery. Others hide the knowledge from the children with the intention of guarding them from a difficult truth. Parents wish to protect their children from the dangers of the dour realities of life. They endeavor to keep their children's naive lives free of immoral thoughts that human trafficking awareness may create.
In the twenty first century statistics have proven that stranger abductions are feared most by parents but rarely happen, and the number one abduction that occurs is, parental abduction. “Over 800,000 children are reported missing in the United States each year. Child abduction is a tragedy that devastates parents and touches all of us,” writes Jenny Wanderscheid in her online article. The United States has feared abductions for over decades, but many people misjudge the stereotypical “abduction”.
Thousands of women are currently held captive in America today. In 2006, it is estimated that over 300 thousand children are held in the sex trafficking business. Particularly, girls under the age of eighteen are forced into the sex trafficking trade. Sex trafficking is known as modern- day slavery. An estimate of 30 to 46 percent of juveniles in the trade attempt suicide. “Potterat et al., 2004 reports that women involved in prostitution have mortality rates 200 times higher than the national average) and are 18 times more likely to be murdered than their non-trafficked counterparts”, Cecchet (2014). Many girls will become abducted from their homes, schools, neighborhoods, and local shopping centers. Some of these young
Persons found guilty of committing the crime of kidnapping risk being imprisoned or heavily find. Additionally, during a kidnap some other offense might occur such as assault and battery. False Imprisonment and Kidnapping are comparative terms but unmistakable as per their legal definitions. While both include persuasively taking an individual away without his consent, false imprisonment is more correctly used in particular cases where a person is confined in a bounded place and denied his or her freedom. Kidnapping is a broader term and includes the unlawful taking of an individual without his consent using threats, deceit, or force with an end goal of confining him or her (Robbins, 2014).
Lies, deceit, and abductions; human trafficking victims face either some or both of these methods to steal these men and women away from the lives they have built. Human trafficking is a plague afflicting most modern societies; men, women and children are trafficked for sex slavery and cheap labor against their wills. Often times Children are taken or lured from their homes and men a blackmailed into slave labor for little or nothing. Women and children are trafficked for sexual uses, mainly prostitution. The trafficking of humans is a massive underground industry throughout the United States as well as close to home mainly Chicago and it’s suburbs.
Human trafficking is a topic that is not discussed very often in society. Many people fail to realize that human trafficking still exists today. Human trafficking violates basic human rights. It takes away the freedom and security of men, women, and children world wide. The diversity and widespread execution of human trafficking make it difficult to regulate and prosecute.
The definition of kidnapping is taking away a person against his or her will through force or threat and holding such person in false imprisonment; holding a person without any legal authority or right to do so. There are many reasons this horrible crime is committed. Some kidnap for ransom, to succeed in other crimes, gain custody of their child, and even political reasons. Although most of us associate strangers to be the committers of such a crime, a lot of victims are actually kidnapped by someone they know or even a relative ("Criminal Law Lawyer Source").
One of the most common reasons for a hostage taking situation is desperation. The hostage taker feels desperate because of either what he has done or what he is doing. (DeFao) Taking a hostage is a split second decision usually made out of desperation. (DeFao) A person who is in the process of committing a crime, for instance a bank robber who has been surrounded or confron...
The abduction of children for various purposes; ransom and extortion, work, sex, power, custody, has historically been a feature of many societies. (Encyclopedia). There are two types of child abduction: parental child abduction and abduction by a stranger. It is near impossible to conceal a kidnapped child in the world today. 1 child goes missing every 40 seconds -354,000 abductions occur within the family each year -over ½ of the abductors are men -49% of abductors have criminal records -4,600 stranger abductions occur each year -sexual assault is most common as a motive -75% of all abductions involve a weapon of some sort. After everything that happens to all parties involved there can be short