Abstract This paper argues that international parental abductions are an especially pernicious act which does a great deal of harm emotionally to children. The paper examines the issue by assessing the consequences of parental abduction upon all of the parties involved - but especially the children who have been uprooted from their familiar surroundings.
From the Paper "International Parental Abduction: A Review and Assessment The Problem There can scarcely be any doubt that international parental abduction has become a very serious issue in contemporary society. As more and more families fall apart and as the divorce rate continues to climb, the likelihood that a child will become caught up in something like this grows as well."
Abstract This paper evaluates three websites discussing the Lindbergh kidnapping; two presenting the conventionally accepted view and one challenging it. For each website, it discusses the apparent purpose of the site, the sources, the authors' expertise, and features of the site that influence its effectiveness.
Abstract Statistics are cited to establish how widespread abduction has become, and prominent cases such as the Polly Klaas kidnapping are examined. The paper concludes with discussion of preventive measures which can be taken and laws which need to be passed to ameliorate the problem.
Abstract This paper provides an insight into AMBER, the acronym for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response which uses teamwork between the media, citizens and law enforcement in order to find abducted children. It describes how the program works works by sending crucial information to the public, via radio TV, and sometimes electronic roadside signs. It examines its pros and cons such as desensitization from overuse and provides statistics on children that disappear and the readness of the public to help.
From the Paper "Recent history has shown that the AMBER alert system is needed. Statistics show that there are about 46,000 non-relative kidnappings each year, and two thirds of those involve a sexual assault. Because parents don?t always immediately notice that a child is missing, a 2-hour delay before reporting the abduction is common, but three-fourths of the children killed in these incidents are killed within three hours of being taken (KKF, 2002). This makes a rapid and wide response urgent, but police can only be in so many places at once."
Abstract On March 1, 1932, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., baby of the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped. The paper examines whether Bruno Richard Hauptmann did actually kidnap the Lindbergh baby and, if not, who did? The paper discusses some reasons why he might not have kidnapped him. These include the lack of sufficient evidence to prove him guilty and the anti-German sentiments during this time in history.
From the Paper ?The nation, along with the world, was shocked and deeply saddened to hear this news. Many wondered why someone would take the Lindbergh's baby and wanted to find the kidnapper and see him put to justice. On September 19, 1934, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested after supposedly using part of the ransom money to make a purchase at a gas station. After six weeks in trial for what was later known as ?The Crime of the Century,? on February 14, 1935, Hauptmann was found guilty and sentenced to death (Linder, "The Hauptmann"?). Today, many people believe, as did many at the time of his execution, that he was innocent. Hauptmann was offered life imprisonment if he would confess to the crime, but he claimed he was innocent, even until he was executed ("The Lindbergh"Intrigue?). Some people say only an innocent man would not confess to save his life ("The Lindbergh Case"Intrigue?). Careless police work carried out on the scene of the crime caused the loss of what could have been significant evidence. Because of the loss of this evidence there is no way to lawfully sentence a suspect without having some feeling of xenophobia in the court. Therefore, Hauptmann was found guilty more because of anti-German sentiments in the interwar period than for legitimate standard of proof even when circumstantial evidence abounded in the court's decision."
Abstract This paper sets forth a hypothetical scenario for terrorist attack (kidnapping) and strategies to mitigate or reduce the effect of the attack by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC). The paper examines how the kidnapping could be carried out.
From the Paper "The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia is known by its Spanish acronym FARC. FARC is intent on bringing about a communist revolution in Colombia and has fought for nearly four decades to ..."
Abstract This paper describes and analyzes the characters of Perry Smith, the murderer in Truman Capote's novel "In Cold Blood" and Alberto Villamizar, the husband in Marques' novel, "News of Kidnapping", who is trying to free his wife from the clutches of Pablo Escobar. From the examination of these two characters the paper then takes a closer look at Marques and Capote's moral ladder to find out what precisely it is that separates perpetrator from victim, the moral from the immoral, and whether there is any hope for redemption.
From the Paper "In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote, is perhaps one of the most chilling, yet enthralling novels ever written. Gabriel Garcia Marques, the author of News of a Kidnapping, himself a Nobel Prize winner (for 100 years of Solitude) is also a fascinating writer of our own time. One of the many attributes that distinguish these two authors is not just that they understand the human condition and present it in a compelling way; it is that they often ask difficult questions, questions of time, place, morality, and responsibility. They bring up questions that most people would never think to ask. Both of these books are the accounts of true crimes that happened. Both authors spent many years researching the stories and preparing the books. They both ask us chilling questions about the darker side of human nature."
Abstract The kidnapping of the son of Charles Lindbergh in 1932 was immediately labeled the Crime of the Century, and the investigation and subsequent court case occupied the headlines for some time. This paper shows that, indeed, this case was one of the first of the true media events of the century, and much of the media attention might today be seen as damaging. The paper shows that Bruno Hauptmann was tried and executed for the crime, but some see him as having been tried first in the press, one of the reasons some doubts have emerged about his real culpability in recent years.
From the Paper "The media circus surrounding the Hauptmann trial contributed to the view of many that the trial was unfair, which has also raised questions about whether Hauptmann was guilty or not. Even some people at the time thought that Hauptmann was innocent, and more have agreed with this assessment since. Critics of the outcome note that the case was largely circumstantial, that no one saw Hauptmann at the house or with the baby at any time."
Abstract Shows the growing incidence of child abductions in the U.S. Discusses the motivations for kidnapping, including parental custody abduction, sexual predation/rape, profit, and homicidal intention.
From the Paper "Major categories of deviant behavior include crime, drug abuse, alcoholism, mental disorders, suicide, murder and kidnapping. As witnessed by the rapidly increasing numbers of child abductions, ..."
Abstract This paper discusses the case of a kidnapped boy who suffered from the Stockholm syndrome. The paper explains Stockholm syndrome and then looks at what researchers and psychologists have to say about this syndrome. The paper discusses how Shawn Hornbeck was just 11 years old at the time he was abducted (an age when most children still require parental figures) and, as a survival technique, bonded with a man who was not his father but his kidnapper. The paper also notes that the term Stockholm Syndrome was coined in reference to events that happened to adults who were held hostage for just six days. Yet these adults had become emotionally bonded to their captors within those few days. The writer then proposes a method for conducting a meta analysis on existing research of Stockholme syndrome, using a boarding school for field research. The writer concludes that physically removing children from their parents for boarding school causes them to establish a bi-directional emotional bond with the parental substitutes, which tends to confirm the theory that Hornbeck's failure to escape was caused by Stockholm Syndrome, as has been speculated in the media.
From the Paper "Thus, in terms of this theory, Hornbeck would actually have bonded with Devlin. This bonding would likely have been motivated by his unconscious or conscious assumption that such bonding would increase the chances that Devlin would not kill him. Certainly, the hypothesis that Hornbeck bonded with Devlin is borne out by news reports that the boy had identified himself as Shawn Devlin on internet sites. Taking someone's name is surely a powerful sign of bonding - after all, the most usual time when this occurs is on marriage, which is one of the most significant types of voluntary bonding."
From the Paper "THE ABDUCTION AND TRIAL OF MANUEL NORIEGA
This research paper discusses and analyzes the international
legal aspects of the abduction and trial of Manuel Noriega. In
1990 Noriega, the former Panamanian military strongman, was
kidnapped by the American military and returned to Miami where
he was tried and convicted on criminal charges. The Noriega and
other recent cases raise basic questions of international law
relating to the right of one state to apply extraterritorially
its criminal laws to the citizens of another state. Novel issues
arose because of the circumstances under which Noriega was
captured his status as a foreign head of state. A solid case can
be made that in all these instances, general principles of
international law were violated. The defendants in these cases
appear to have been guilty of the offenses charged. They were ..."
Retells the true-life story of the kidnapping of teenage heiress, Patricia Campbell Hearst and the emotional, physical and mental consequences she suffered as a result.
Abstract This paper recounts the 1974 kidnapping of teenage heiress Patricia Campbell Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). The paper briefly describes the kidnapping ordeal and what Patricia Hearst had to endure as a kidnap victim and then takes a look at her life after she was released from her kidnappers. More specifically, the paper looks at how the kidnapping and the events that transpired after the kidnapping forever changed the character, values and attitude of Patricia Campbell Hearst.
From the Paper "A teenage heiress gets kidnapped by a left-wing activists, transforms into a urban terrorist, robs a bank, gets arrested, gets convicted, and, finally, gets pardoned by President Jimmy Carter, himself. Is this a plot out of an imaginative novel? Not quite. This is what happened to Patricia Hearst on February 4th, 1974. It was a story with bizarre twists of events, which went on for 5 years while the world watched in disbelief. It would prove to be an affair that would not only changed her life, but how she viewed it. At the start of her life, and in the early kidnapping weeks, her attitude reflected her upbringing. A long two years later, after having joined the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) herself, she was captured by the FBI. It was then that Patty's family and Patty herself noticed the drastic change in her personality. The months she spent in jail, and under the American legal system, only added to her new demeanour. When she was finally free, she could still not escape the fear and vulnerability that these events had created in her. After being a part of the SLA and treated as a criminal, Patricia Hearst was changed from being a sheltered child, to a harsh realist."
Abstract This paper explains that the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who received a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, demonstrate a unique combination of fantasy and reality. His beloved Columbia is mentioned in almost all his works. The author relates that his book, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," which is about the ghost and spirits that used to haunt his grandmother, is based on the author's own childhood experiences in his home with his grandparents in Aracataca. The paper relates that, in "News of a Kidnapping," Marquez describes the ordeal of the kidnappings and the captivity of ten individuals, including the trauma suffered by the parents and the caretakers of these people and the efforts undertaken by them to free their children from the captors.
From the Paper "Maruja Pachon de Villamizar was a friend of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. She had been kidnapped from her home in Columbia by a group of terrorists and extremists. When Maruja and Alberto Villamizar approached the author in the year 1993 to request him to write a book on the ordeal that had been undergone by Maruja during the abduction, Gabriel Marquez decided to take up the challenge. When he started his research, however, he discovered that there had been nine other abductions of the same kind at the same time, in Columbia. This was when he decided that this particular kidnapping could not be treated as one single episode and separated from the others. Therefore, he decided, he would research all the ten abductions that had taken place, and then write his story. This is the background of the book 'News of a Kidnapping'."
Abstract This paper reviews the book "Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave" in which Sue Eakin describes the life of a free black man, Solomon Northup, from Saratoga, N.Y., who was kidnapped in 1841 and forced into slavery in Louisiana for twelve years. The author relates that the first chapter gives the background of Northup's life beginning at his birth and his freedom, which he gained through his father's tribulations; however, the second chapter delineates the process whereby Northup is deceived into his entrapment. The paper continues, chapter by chapter, and ends with chapter twenty-one with the trip back to New York; a warrant is issued for Burch for his role in the kidnapping and the chapter continues through Burch's trial in which he is acquitted, but the story still ultimately is completed with Northup's reunion with his beloved wife and daughters.
From the Paper "Chapter four begins with more of the recount of "Eliza's sorrows" and continues with another suggestion of the irony of the locale: "the Capital of a nation, whose theory of government...rests on the foundation of man's inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." It is here that Northup seems to resign himself to his position and seems to regain a sense of hopefulness, although the other characters remain downtrodden. Disturbingly, it is also in this chapter that Northup calls Burch by the title "Master" for the first time, before the reader is introduced to several other new characters facing the same fate as Northup."
An analysis of the books "Kidnapped" by Robert Lewis Stevenson, "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque and "Dynamics of Faith" by Paul Tillich.
Abstract This paper discusses three books that describe western civilization's progress toward modernism: "Kidnapped", "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Dynamics of Faith". The paper examines the characters of David in "Kidnapped" and Paul in "All Quiet on the Western Front." The paper portrays how the authors of these two novels present a dim view of a society that often embraces evil at the expense of faith and humanity. The paper notes that "Dynamics of Faith" by Paul Tillich takes a more optimistic view of the modern world and modernity.
From the Paper "Both of these novels take place at crucial times in history, when the world was changing in many ways. In "Kidnapped," David's life alters because of his parent's death and his circumstances change dramatically. He begins to see a side of life that can only be described as more "modern" than he was used to - filled with dangerous men with little faith or goodness in them. Stevenson seems to be saying there is great evil in the world of the 1750s - murder, slavery, arranged kidnappings, and more, and it is due to a lack of faith and Godliness in many people."
Tags: evil, humanity, callousness, science, morality, David, Alan, Paul
