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Kidnap : inside the ransom business / Anja Shortland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shortland, Anja, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kidnapping--Economic aspects.
- Kidnapping.
- Ransom--Economic aspects.
- Ransom.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 249 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Ransom is a lucrative but very tricky business. Based on in-depth interviews with experts, this text provides an economic analysis of how the trade in hostages works, and uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies.
- Contents:
- Kidnap for ransom as a business
- Part I. Why people are kidnapped for ransom
- Understanding patterns of kidnapping
- The protector's choice
- Part II. Making kidnapping insurable
- What is kidnap for ransom insurance?
- Crafting an effective protection contract
- The price of a life
- The case of the CEC future
- Trading with kidnappers
- Governing kidnap for ransom
- Part III. When kidnaps go wrong
- Why do hostages die?
- Debrief.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-254751-8
- 0-19-254750-X
- 0-19-185315-1
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