...Kidnapping for ransom is a common occurrence in various parts of the world today, and certain cities and countries are often described as the "Kidnapping Capital of the World." As of 2007, that title belongs to Iraq with possibly 1,500 foreigners kidnapped.[22][23] In 2004, it was Mexico,[24] and in 2001, it was Colombia.[25] Statistics are harder to come by. Reports suggest a world total of 12,500-25,500/year with 3,600/year in Colombia and 3,000/year in Mexico around the year 2000.[26] However by 2006, the number of kidnappings in Colombia had declined to 687 and it continues to decline.[27] Mexican numbers are hard to confirm because of fears of police involvement in kidnapping.[28] "Kidnapping seems to flourish particularly in fragile states and conflict countries, as politically motivated militias, organized crime and the drugs mafia fill the vacuum left by government."[21] In 2009, the Los Angeles Times named Phoenix, Arizona[29] as America's kidnapping capital, reporting that every year hundreds of ransom kidnappings occur there, virtually all within the underworld associated with human and drug smuggling from Mexico, and often done as a way of collecting unpaid debts. Other major U.S. cities that are hotbeds for kidnappings are Detroit, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, and Chicago.[29] Many of them are done by major street gangs near tourist attractions. During the year 1999 in the United States, 203,900 children were reported as the victims of family abductions and 58...
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...Case Study-Kidnapped In Colombia 1. The company made a number of mistakes in preparing Melissa and Dan for their trip to Columbia. First off the company should have never let the couple go into such a hostile territory uninsured. Kidnappings were a frequent happening in Colombia; therefore, the company should have provided some sort of ransom insurance in case something was to ever happen. Granted the couple were warned about the political troubles and violence in Colombia, they were never really safeguarded against potential crimes. In addition, the company didn’t prepare the couple for the language barrier in Colombia. Purchasing everyday merchandise or communicating with the locals on a day to day basis was really hard. The company should have either provided a translator who could be at the couple’s service whenever needed, or the couple should have taken some sort of introductory course to help them learn the basics of the language. And lastly, the organization should have provided better protection for the couple as a whole. Did the company make its best effort to put them in the safest possible region in the country? As a valued member of the organization, Dan should have received the best possible protection from the company. 2. Dan and Melissa also made a lot of blunders in preparation for this trip. For one they didn’t prepare themselves. They should have conducted more research on the country and understood the cultural similarities and differences. They based...
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...It is near impossible to conceal a kidnapped child in the world today. There was a case where a child was taken by his father, from his home in the United States, to Iran. In this case his parents had recently divorced the mother was unable to get her child back, having gone through courts and biding by the law. It was only recently the U.S. courts demanded that the child be returned. The parent, or parents, that the child is taken from may feel that their lives are over. They go through many emotions ranging from sad to angry. First they have to deal with the fact that their child is now gone and then go through the stressful process of trying to find them and get them back. Ask any parent of an abducted child and they will say that the wait is the hardest. Not knowing whether or not their child is alive, waiting for that phone call that will decide the rest of their lives for them. That is a phone call many of the parents get. Most abducted children do not return home, having begun a new life, if it was a parent or relative abductor, or being abused and killed by an unfamiliar abductor. Here are a few facts about child abduction 1 child goes missing every 40 seconds -354,000 abductions occur within the family each year -over ½ of the abductors are men -49% of abductors have criminal records -4,600 stranger abductions occur each year -sexual assault is most common as a motive -75% of all abductions involve a weapon of some sort. After everything that happens to all parties...
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...Kidnapping is any illegal capture or detention by any strangers for criminal and mischievous purpose. In criminal laws, kidnapping means taking away or asportation of a person against the person’s will. These problems are usually caused by parental child abduction, children abduction for slavery and abduction results from parents to bring up as their own. Now, here are some preventions for these particular circumstance from occur. First of all, parents ought to give guidelines to their children. They should play their very important role to build up a family safety plan. Parents need to educate their kids to think logically, in order to do so, kids must be taught that questioning, reasoning, and criticizing are good requirement to stay safe. They have to stay aware of the surrounding issues and keep alert. For example, teach the kids about stranger and common lures used by kidnapper such as giving sweets to seduce them and many more. Other than that, parents should also listen to their kids’ problem. Ask if they have question, and listen carefully to their answer. Parents have to put themselves into their children’s shoes. Moreover, it is essential to know where the kids are going, who is with them and when they are suppose to return home. Parents can check on the location of their children if they keep a list of acquaintance’s phone numbers. Besides that, an implantable chip touted is another effective solution for child kidnapping. The chip can be surgically planted under...
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...The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Jeff Harris 5/19/2015 There are three main parts that make up our criminal justice system in America, the police, courts, and corrections. The Lindbergh baby, Charles Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped from his bed sometime between the hours of 7:30pm and 10pm on March 1, 1932. (www.History.com). He was suffering from a cold and was left to drift off to sleep by his nanny, Betty Gow, with the window open. (www.clickamericana.com). When his father came to check on him and found him gone, he found a note demanding a $50,000 ransom. Three days later, another ransom note was found demanding $70,000. March 9, 1932 a man named John F. Condon, a retired teacher, claimed to have made contact with the kidnappers. He placed an ad in the Bronx Home News offering to be an intermediary. Mr. Condon alleged to have met with the kidnapper in several graveyards. He used the alias “Jafsie” and he dubbed the kidnapper “Graveyard John.” (www.pbs.org). The ransom was delivered on April 2, 1932 and the parents were told they could find the child on a boat off the Massachusetts coast called Nelly. The baby was not there. Finally, on May 12, 1932 the baby was found less than a mile from the New Jersey mansion. He had been dead from a fractured skull since the night he was taken. The case became a murder case at this point. Many people were involved in the investigation but few clues were found. Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf was the official lead investigator. The police...
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...In addition to crime, the Lindbergh kidnapping was a big deal in the 1930’s. March 1, 1932, 20 month old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. disappeared from his home at 9:00 pm. A search was done around the Lindbergh Hopewell, NJ home. What was found was muddy boot prints and a ransom note demanding $50,000 from the Lindbergh family. There was also a ladder that the kidnapper used to exit and enter the child's room. Everyone in the house at the time were questioned. They attempted to negotiate with the kidnapper to get their child back. Ransom notes continued to come but demanding more and more money each time. Many theories were discussed with the police and private investigators were hired. On May 12, 1932, the body of the child was accidentally...
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...The Lindbergh kidnapping was deemed the “Crime of the Century” in the 20th century much like how 9/11 was a very serious and detrimental terrorists attack in this century . It all started when Charles Lindbergh was an American pilot who made the first transatlantic non-stop flight from New York to France, which took about 33 and a half hours (James 1). Charles Lindbergh was staying at his home in Hopewell, New Jersey with his wife and 20 month old son Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. On the night of March 1, 1932, Charles Lindbergh Jr., was kidnapped from his crib in the Hopewell house and was never seen until a bystander found the dead body on the side of the road years later. All of the evidence produced from the crime scene pointed to only...
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...The Lindbergh case, the kidnapping of Charles, Jr, of 20-months-old. the son of the famous aviator and his wife, Anne Lindbergh. the baby was kidnapped from the nursery on the second floor. from the lindbergh home at 9:00 pm, on march 1, 1932. the baby's parents were notified an hour later, while they were with the child's nurse, Betty they immediately made search of the house. they found a ransom note demanding $50,000. then after the hopewell police were notified, they reported through telephone to the New Jersey police. during the search they found evidence. there were blood stains in or about the nursery, and no fingerprints were found. the evidence they found during the search were footprints , two sections of a ladder, and a ransom...
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...Lindbergh Kidnapping It was considered the “Crime of the Century” that is still captivating people. What truly happened on the night of March 1, 1932 in Hopewell, New Jersey is still being talked about decades later. Even though one man was tried and convicted for this crime, there are still many conspiracy theories that surround this case. Was it an inside job that had been carefully planned? Was it the result of skillful fabrication done by investigators and police to wrongfully accuse one man? Or was the verdict correct and it was all done by one man alone? The question still remains, who kidnapped the Lindbergh baby? Due to the considerable evidence against Bruno Hauptmann, it is believed that Mr. Hauptmann was the one to kidnap...
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...This a non fiction historical event surrounding the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. This huge outbreak happened on the night of March 1st the year of 1932, near Hopewell New Jersey, this kidnapping became known as “The Crime of the Century”. The parents of Charles Lindbergh Jr., who was 20 months old, were downstairs, while the baby was upstairs in his bed, asleep. The father of the Lindbergh baby, is Colonel Charles Lindbergh, who was the first man in 1927 to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. The book is not just about the Lindbergh baby, the story revolves around a girl, who is also the narrator and main character of my book is a girl named Katie, she really is interested in what happened, she keeps newspaper clippings of it, and Her...
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...Deforestation in Nepal Forests support biodiversity, providing habitats for wildlife, flora and a place for cattle to graze. The process of deforestation inevitably results in a decline in this biodiversity, as the removal or destruction of forest cover decreases the environment available for these various lifeforms. Forestry is one of the most important natural resources of the country of Nepal. Historically, Nepal was a vastly forested country. However, from 1990 to 2010, 24% of forest cover was lost (1,181,000 ha) . The main reasons for deforestation to this extent have been land clearings - to gain new agricultural land - and the demand for timber and in particular the demand for firewood . Nepal is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world, with 40% of its population living below the poverty line, which is defined by the United Nations as earning less than $1.25 per day. Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy, providing a livelihood for over 80% of the population, and accounting for 40% of Nepal’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (WWF Nepal accessed 2010). Whilst Sherpas involved in trekking expeditions and other mountain-related tourism can earn up to $7,000 per year, the average per capita income is much lower at approximately $1400 per year (Reid, 2003). The vast majority of the country’s population – approximately 85% of the twenty five million people who live in Nepal - live in rural areas and practice subsistence farming, and as such...
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...University of Phoenix Material Week Three Worksheet Match the items in the Case Summary column to the Options in the right column by entering the correct corresponding alphabetical letter next to the numbers in the first column. Not all options will be used. | | |Case Summary | |Options | | | | | | | | |D |Shaun is driving home at night from work on a six-lane road, |Murder | | | |under the speed limit. There are no streetlights. A man is |Voluntary manslaughter | | | |crossing the middle of the street, and Shaun does not see him. |Involuntary manslaughter | | | |Shaun hits the man and kills him. |Justifiable homicide | | | | |Excusable homicide | | | | |Statutory rape | | | | |Malice aforethought | | | | ...
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...Unit 5 Title: The Ransom of Red Chief[1] Suggested Time: 4 days (45 minutes per day) Common Core ELA Standards: RL.8.1, RL.8.2, RL.8.3, RL.8.4, RL.8.6, RL.8.7, RL.8.9; W.8.2, W.8.4, W.8.9; SL.8.1; L.8.1, L.8.2, L.8.5 Teacher Instructions Preparing for Teaching 1. Read the Big Ideas and Key Understandings and the Synopsis. Please do not read this to the students. This is a description for teachers about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task. Big Ideas and Key Understandings Writers use irony to fuel the plot of a story. Synopsis Bill and Sam decide that the best way to finance their upcoming land swindle is to kidnap the child of a wealthy citizen and hold him for ransom. The boy they choose, instead of being the docile, frightened child one would expect, is a terror who abuses Bill in every way he can think of, all in the name of fun. The response to their ransom note is not what they would have wished: instead of paying $1500 to get Johnny back, the father demands $250 to take the boy off their hands. In desperation, they agree, and end the story poorer than they began. Read the entire selection, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings. Re-read the text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Tier II/academic vocabulary. During Teaching 1. Students read the entire selection independently. 2. Teacher reads the text...
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...Britany Cochran 11/04/2013 BMGT 1101 1. $440,000 /27-15= $440,000/12=$36,667/365= 101 customers a day 2. This is not feasible due to the restaurant being on campus, and not being able to have 101 people per day paying at least $27 per meal. 3. a.) my target market would be college students, teachers and families. I would also use cost based pricing, so I am able to determine the price of things instead of a firm telling me what I should make the price, that way everyone can afford to eat at my restaurant. B.) 264,000/15-5= 264,000/10= 26,400/365= 73 customers per day 4. I would use direct marketing and direct sales by leaving fliers and coupons on their doors and by sending out fliers and coupons in the mail. 5. a.) Xerox and Amazon b.) Printers and amazon cloud c.) Printers fall into the maturity stage of the life cycle, they have been around for years and I don't ever see us not needing them. There will always be a need to print something off the computer. Amazon cloud is in the introduction stage of the life cycle it hasn't been out for very long and not heard of or used very often. “List of All Products and Services Provided by Amazon Web Services." Born Virtual. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Nov. 2013. "Xerox - Support & Drivers: A-Z List of All Products." Xerox...
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...How To Avoid Kidnapping ? You are in danger at any place and at any time. Thus, it is necessary to exercise safety everywhere you go and even at your home. | Here are some of the ways in which you can exercise safety and can avoid being kidnapped: Tips on How To Avoid Kidnapping ?: * Take different routes at different times from home to work and vice-versa. Make sure that all the members of your family practice this, especially children. Make changes in your routine in such a way that you go unnoticed by the perpetrator. * Avoid wearing expensive accessories (jewelry) that would reflect your wealth and identify you as a person from a rich family or an employee of a wealthy company. * Avoid traveling alone, safety comes with numbers. If you use public transportation, be extremely careful. Drive in cabs of reliable companies. Note down the license plate number of the taxi. If you use a private car, make sure that your car is in a good condition and the fuel tank is at least half full. Chauffer driven car is the best option. * If you experience an erratic behavior from a stranger, seek to a safer place, an environment that is crowded like a store or a bank that is around. * Do not open doors until you know who is on the other side. It is advisable to exercise more safety if you are alone at the house. * Keep all your personal items safe and secure. Take special care about your money, travel documents, passports, identity cards and laptops. Keep...
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