False imprisonment is defined as “intentionally confining or restraining another person without their consent” by a typical statute regarding the crime. This crime doesn’t require that the offender actually remove the victim from where they were when the crime was committed. This crime is a lesser form of deprivation of liberty than is kidnapping because the time frame is usually shorter and the events are somewhat less stressful(page 426). Kidnapping is defined as the taking and carrying away of another person with the intent to deprive that person of personal liberty. Kidnapping is a more serious crime and can be carried out with differing degrees, simple and aggravated. If a police officer makes an illegal arrest, perhaps with no intent to actually book the “offender”, and detains the individual, say inside a squad car, with no true purpose or suspicion of a crime then they have just falsely imprisoned that person and may be facing charges their self. Another example of false imprisonment could be in the case of a home invasion where the offender forces the
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The many purposes of kidnapping, primarily aggravated, include ransom demands, procuring a hostage(in a bank robbery perhaps), with intent to commit sexual crimes, robbery, murder, to terrorize the victim(perhaps a stalker or a domestic dispute), or to achieve political aims(which may fall into a terroristic act). In many foreign countries kidnapping is an often used tool to fund terrorism, drive political and revolutionary goals, and simply as a source of income. Until recently Mexico City was the kidnapping capital of the world. Taxi drivers in Volkswagen Bugs would pick up fares then refuse to let them out until a ransom was paid. Typically no harm was actually done to the victims and with the introduction of larger four door cars to be used as taxis the practice has abated
The many purposes of kidnapping, primarily aggravated, include ransom demands, procuring a hostage(in a bank robbery perhaps), with intent to commit sexual crimes, robbery, murder, to terrorize the victim(perhaps a stalker or a domestic dispute), or to achieve political aims(which may fall into a terroristic act). In many foreign countries kidnapping is an often used tool to fund terrorism, drive political and revolutionary goals, and simply as a source of income. Until recently Mexico City was the kidnapping capital of the world. Taxi drivers in Volkswagen Bugs would pick up fares then refuse to let them out until a ransom was paid. Typically no harm was actually done to the victims and with the introduction of larger four door cars to be used as taxis the practice has abated