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    Kidnapping involves the unlawful taking and detention of a person against their will through force or fraud. The main motives for kidnapping are subjecting the victim to involuntary servitude, exposing them to further criminal acts, or obtaining ransom for their release. More recently, kidnapping has been used as a tactic by political or terrorist groups to gain concessions from governments. Kidnapping is considered a grave offense that is punishable by long prison sentences or death in all countries.

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    Kidnapping involves the unlawful taking and detention of a person against their will through force or fraud. The main motives for kidnapping are subjecting the victim to involuntary servitude, exposing them to further criminal acts, or obtaining ransom for their release. More recently, kidnapping has been used as a tactic by political or terrorist groups to gain concessions from governments. Kidnapping is considered a grave offense that is punishable by long prison sentences or death in all countries.

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    Kidnapping involves the unlawful taking and detention of a person against their will through force or fraud. The main motives for kidnapping are subjecting the victim to involuntary servitude, exposing them to further criminal acts, or obtaining ransom for their release. More recently, kidnapping has been used as a tactic by political or terrorist groups to gain concessions from governments. Kidnapping is considered a grave offense that is punishable by long prison sentences or death in all countries.

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    Kidnapping, also spelled kidnaping, criminal offense consisting of

    the unlawful taking and carrying away of a person by force or fraud or


    the unlawful seizure and detention of a person against his will. The
    principal motives for kidnapping are to subject the victim to some
    form of involuntary servitude, to expose him to the commission of
    some further criminal act against his person, or to obtain ransom for
    his safe release. More recently, kidnapping for the purpose
    of extortion has become a tactic of political revolutionaries or
    terrorists seeking concessions from a government. In all countries it is
    considered a grave offense punishable by a long prison sentence or
    death.

    In earlier times kidnapping meant carrying a person away to another


    country for involuntary servitude. It also referred to the practices of
    impressing males into military service (also known as crimping) by
    fraudulent inducement or force and of shanghaiing merchant seamen
    in port cities.

    Abducting young women and selling them for purposes of


    concubinage or prostitution has also been characterized as a form of
    kidnapping. In current statutes this is often described
    as abduction and ordinarily includes the taking or detention of a girl
    under a designated age for purposes of marriage. In some countries
    the alienation of a husband from his wife by another woman who
    entices him away is also delineated as a criminal offense within the
    meaning of abduction. Modern kidnapping laws are drawn so as to
    proscribe the offense of taking a person with the object of extorting
    large amounts of ransom money or other concessions for his safe
    return. This became common in the United States during the 1920s
    and 1930s. The kidnapping in 1932 of the infant son of the
    internationally known American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh spurred
    legislation imposing the death penalty for transporting a kidnapped
    victim across a state line.In most countries, the offense of kidnapping
    includes false imprisonment. False imprisonment aggravated by the
    carrying of the person to some other place is considered a kidnapping,
    thus inviting a more severe penalty.

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