Kidnapping and Violence New Research and Clinical Perspectives /

• Main Author: Morewitz, Stephen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Experiential research.; Clinical psychology.; Psychology Research.; Clinical Psychology.

This book analyzes kidnapping in various forms and from various perspectives. First it argues that kidnapping, including the threat of kidnapping, reflects a breakdown in the mechanisms of social control in society. This volume also discusses the ways governments and para-military and terrorist grou...

Table of Contents:

• Partner Kidnapping and Hostage-Taking
• Bride Abduction
• Family Abduction in the United States
• International Family-Child Abduction
• Non-Family Juvenile Abduction
• Responses to Abducted Children
• Infant Abduction
• Kidnapping by Cesarean Section and State-Sponsored Abduction of Newborns
• Human Trafficking
• Ransom Kidnapping
• Kidnapping: Carjacking and Related Crimes
• Aircraft Hijacking
• Maritime Piracy and Kidnapping
• Kidnapping Hoaxes.