Kidnap : inside the ransom business /
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford scholarship onlinePublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type:- text
- still image
- computer
- online resource
- 9780191853159 (ebook) :
- 364.154 23
- HV6595
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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