Abstract
Kidnapping is one of the most psychologically harmful crimes, understanding the effects and coping measures will assist with treatment for the victim and family. There are two main types of child abduction, family abduction and non-family abduction, and each type involves varying information about developmental and psychological effects. Motives of the abduction vary by offender as some motivations suggest the need for control, order, and significance. Child abduction is a serious criminal act and should not be taken lightly, and the author plans to provide insight on the motives of offenders, psychological effects, coping measures, and treatment of child abduction using the research presented in this paper. This paper will use the story of Elizabeth Smart to discuss the effects of child abduction on the child and their family as well as the coping measures applied to assist with proper treatment in child abduction cases. The author will explain in detail the motives of these abductors in an effort to further explain motives of offenders who abduct children. …show more content…
Abduction is defined as removing a person by coaxing, by deception, or by force or violence (Cornell University Law School, n.d.). There are two types of child abduction as discussed previously is family abduction as in parental child abduction and non-familial abduction as in by a stranger. Abduction is tough to define with accuracy because it varies so much between jurisdictions and state and federal abduction laws define abduction vaguely allowing courts determine the details (FBI, 2016). Abduction and kidnapping laws in the United States originally derived from the common law of kidnapping developed by England courts (Fass, 2010). During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the states began to define kidnapping and abduction precisely and removed the component of interstate
Kidnapping is one of the most psychologically harmful crimes, understanding the effects and coping measures will assist with treatment for the victim and family. There are two main types of child abduction, family abduction and non-family abduction, and each type involves varying information about developmental and psychological effects. Motives of the abduction vary by offender as some motivations suggest the need for control, order, and significance. Child abduction is a serious criminal act and should not be taken lightly, and the author plans to provide insight on the motives of offenders, psychological effects, coping measures, and treatment of child abduction using the research presented in this paper. This paper will use the story of Elizabeth Smart to discuss the effects of child abduction on the child and their family as well as the coping measures applied to assist with proper treatment in child abduction cases. The author will explain in detail the motives of these abductors in an effort to further explain motives of offenders who abduct children. …show more content…
Abduction is defined as removing a person by coaxing, by deception, or by force or violence (Cornell University Law School, n.d.). There are two types of child abduction as discussed previously is family abduction as in parental child abduction and non-familial abduction as in by a stranger. Abduction is tough to define with accuracy because it varies so much between jurisdictions and state and federal abduction laws define abduction vaguely allowing courts determine the details (FBI, 2016). Abduction and kidnapping laws in the United States originally derived from the common law of kidnapping developed by England courts (Fass, 2010). During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the states began to define kidnapping and abduction precisely and removed the component of interstate