Kidnap: Inside The Ransom Business

Ransom is a lucrative but very tricky business. Based on in-depth interviews with experts, this book provides an economic analysis of how the trade in hostages works, and uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies.

• | By (Author): Anja (Reader In Political Economy, Reader In Political Economy, King'S College London) Shortland
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 07, 2019
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0198815476
• | ISBN-13: 9780198815471