Nigeria (Commonwealth) _ Nigeria has lower rates of kidnapping cases than nations like Turkey, Canada, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, according to a World Population Review analysis, despite the country’s recent spate of kidnappings and murders.
According to the Global Kidnapping Index research, abduction is one of the crimes that determines a nation’s ranking among the most violent or dangerous nations in the world, along with variables like rape rates, murder rates, and whether or not a nation is at war.
Kidnapping happens for a multitude of causes and may take many different shapes. In many industrialized countries, the most prevalent type of kidnapping is when a parent takes their child away; this parent usually doesn’t have legal custody of the child and is usually separated from the other parent.
A parent may turn to abduction in order to inflict emotional pain on the other parent, worry that the other parent will withhold the child from them, or believe that the other parent is a danger to the child’s safety. There are, however, much fewer examples of kidnappings of minors for more sinister uses, such human trafficking or sexual exploitation.
Kidnappings in less developed nations are frequently carried out for political or financial reasons. Insurgents may carry out kidnappings as a kind of terrorism, to attract publicity to their cause, or as a way to threaten the government into complying with their requests.
Some kidnappings are carried out by those who want to make money by selling the victim to human traffickers or keeping them hostage for a ransom. Turkey has the highest rate of abduction worldwide, at 44.669 per 100,000 inhabitants. The others are the following: South Africa, New Zealand, Pakistan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Canada, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.
The frequency of kidnapping varies by nation, however it does not always correspond with the global rates of other violent crimes. One of the crimes that determines a nation’s ranking among the most violent or dangerous in the world is abduction, along with other variables like the rate of rape, the frequency of murder, and whether or not a nation is at war.
Kidnapping happens for a multitude of causes and may take many different shapes. It’s also important to remember that different countries may have different definitions of abduction and differ in how frequently they record and report cases of it.
In many industrialized nations, the most prevalent type of kidnapping is when a parent takes their child away; this parent usually doesn’t have legal custody of the child and is usually separated from the other parent. A parent may turn to abduction in order to inflict emotional pain on the other parent, worry that the other parent will withhold the child from them, or believe that the other parent is a danger to the child’s safety.
There are, however, much fewer examples of kidnappings of minors for more sinister uses, such human trafficking or sexual exploitation. Kidnappings in less developed nations are frequently motivated by political or economic reasons. Insurgents may carry out kidnappings as a kind of terrorism, to attract attention to their cause, or as a way to threaten the government into complying with their demands. Some kidnappings are committed by those who want to sell the abducted person or keep them for ransom in order to make money.
Kidnapping is defined in criminal law as the forcible removal and incarceration of an individual against their will. A person can be kidnapped without the use of force or terror; for example, it can also entail threats, assaults, or violence. It is still considered kidnapping if the victim is persuaded to enter the car or house voluntarily.
Kidnapping can be carried out for illicit reasons or to demand a ransom in return for the victim’s release. When physical harm is sustained during kidnapping, the offense is upgraded to aggravated kidnapping. A different legal category known as “child abduction” is used to describe the kidnapping of a child.
