Kidnapping

This page is dedicated to valuable resources, studies, research projects, survey reports, and articles on the subject of kidnapping. I plan to add more content in the future, but I hope that even at this early stage, it will provide you with new information, help you better support yourself or others, and offer a greater understanding of this type of crime.

“Intimate P Intimate Partner Kidnapping: An Exploratory Analysis” by Lindsey Blumenstein (University of Central Florida), 2013

This study is an exploratory analysis of intimate partner kidnapping. The current study will give a descriptive picture of the victim, offender, and incident characteristics of a form of intimate partner violence that has never been studied before, intimate partner kidnapping, as well as a form of physical violence often seen in the literature, intimate partner assaults. The study will use a combination of the National Incident Based Report System (FBI, 2009), and the American Community Survey (Census, 2012) to identify these characteristics and to identify any potential relationships between structural-level correlates and rates of intimate partner violence. The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of multiple forms of intimate partner violence using police data, as well as understand their relationships to structural-level correlates of countries.

“Capitalizing On Value: Towards a Sociological Understanding of Kidnapping,” by Rodanthi Tzanelli, 2006

Kidnapping is a crime that has not received due attention in sociological literature. Policy and risk assessment milieux discursively construct it as a ‘threat to society’, and administrative studies have focused on classifications that describe the phenomenon. The most widespread typology of kidnapping incidents takes as a starting point criminal motivation, producing a bipolar analysis of the crime as economic or political. This article re-examines classificatory and discursive approaches, placing emphasis on the social logic of kidnapping. It is argued that kidnapping presents all the characteristics of a rationalized system of exchange, based on rules and regulations reminiscent of legitimate business. The way that these regulations are described by state authorities or private agents alike allow us an in-depth analysis of the crime itself.

The Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative (CTDC) is the first global data hub on human trafficking, publishing harmonized data from counter-trafficking organizations around the world.

Launched in November 2017, the goal of CTDC is to break down information-sharing barriers. CTDC data has so far been accessed by users in over 150 countries and territories. Historically, it has been difficult to make data on human trafficking readily accessible to analysts, academics, practitioners and policymakers. Data on human trafficking are often highly sensitive raising a range of privacy and civil liberty concerns where the risk of identifying data subjects can be high and the consequences severe. It is widely recognized that one of the foremost challenges in developing targeted counter-trafficking responses and measuring their impact is the lack of reliable, high-quality information. Data on human trafficking are often highly sensitive, raising a range of privacy and civil liberty concerns where the risk of identifying data subjects can be high and the consequences severe.

“NEVER A VICTIM – The Definitive Guide to Women’s Safety,” written by Robert Kaiser, 2024.

NEVER A VICTIM is the result of over three decades of in-depth understanding of physical and sexual violence against women. This essential resource aims to empower you to trust your innate ability to protect yourself and stay safe. Covering 504 pages and over 110,000 words, it offers proven and reliable advice. The second part of this comprehensive book provides specific guidance on various physical and sexual crimes, including kidnapping.