Kidnap : inside the ransom business / Anja Shortland.

By:

Shortland, Anja

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780198815471
0198815476

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

364.154 23

LOC classification:

HV6595 .S495 2019

Contents:

Contenidos: 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 Part III: Ordering Transactions Across Economies Trading with Kidnappers Governing Kidnap for Ransom Part IV: When Kidnaps Go Wrong Why Do Hostages Die? Debrief EBC Webstore WorldCat Oxford Academic End Matter Notes Bibliography Index

Summary: Ransom is a lucrative but very tricky business. Based on in-depth interviews with experts, this book 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-242) and index.

Contenidos: 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

Part III: Ordering Transactions Across Economies

Trading with Kidnappers

Governing Kidnap for Ransom

Part IV: When Kidnaps Go Wrong

Why Do Hostages Die?

Debrief

EBC Webstore
WorldCat
Oxford Academic

End Matter

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Ransom is a lucrative but very tricky business. Based on in-depth interviews with experts, this book 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.

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