Capitalizing on Value: Towards a Sociological Understanding of Kidnapping  

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Tzanelli, Rodanthi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Sociology vol. 40 no. 05 (Oct. 2006), page 929–947.
Topik: exchange; kidnapping; organized crime; symbolic capital; terrorism; violence
Fulltext: 929.pdf (161.99KB)

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Kidnapping is a crime that has not received due attention in sociological literature. Policy and risk assessment milieux discursively construct it as a ‘threat to society’, and administrative studies have focused on classifications that describe the phenomenon. The most widespread typology of kidnapping incidents takes as a starting point criminal motivation, producing a bipolar analysis of the crime as economic or political.This article re-examines classificatory and discursive approaches, placing emphasis on the social logic of kidnapping. It is argued that kidnapping presents all the characteristics of a rationalized system of exchange, based on rules and regulations reminiscent of legitimate business.The way that these regulations are described by state authorities or private agents alike allows us an in-depth analysis of the crime itself.

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