Kidnap : inside the ransom business /

By:

Shortland, Anja [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford scholarship onlinePublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type:

text
still image

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780191853159 (ebook) :

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

364.154 23

LOC classification:

HV6595

Online resources:

Oxford scholarship online

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.

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This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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