No longer limited by geographic locations and in-person interactions, criminals leverage information communication technology to commit virtual kidnappings. In its simplest form, a kidnapping is cyber-enabled crime where contact targets (falsely) claiming have kidnapped significant other, child, or other relative threatening cause death serious bodily harm the person unless ransom paid. Overall...

This study explores the formulation of a new concept: vicarious resilience. It addresses the question of how psychotherapists who work with survivors of political violence or kidnapping are affected by their clients'stories of resilience. It focuses on the psychotherapists' interpretations of their clients' stories, and how they make sense of the impact that these stories have had on their live...

The inter-relationships between serious types of crime have been neglected. Focusing on those convicted of arson (n=45,915), blackmail (n=5,774), kidnapping (n=7,291) and threats to kill (n=9,816) in England and Wales (1979-2001), we examine the specialisation and sequencing of these crimes in relation to the risk of subsequent homicide. All four offences have a heightened likelihood of subsequ...