Offenses of seizing a person or holding one against his or her will, whether to demand something from a third party, to use as a hostage or simply to confine. An offense belongs here when the definition is the taking away or holding of a person. It excludes the trade in persons for labor or sex and the abduction of children, which have their own groups. Entries placed here are Kidnapping, False Imprisonment and Hostage Taking.
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False Imprisonment (Wikipedia)
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False imprisonment or unlawful imprisonment occurs when a person intentionally restricts another person's movement within any area without legal authority, justification, or the restrained person's permission.
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: Kidnapping (Wex Legal Dictionary)
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Kidnapping is a crime at common law consisting of an unlawful restraint of a person's liberty by force or show of force.
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: 18 U.S. Code § 1203 - Hostage taking
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Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, seizes or detains and threatens to kill, to injure, or to continue to detain another person in order to compel a third person or a governmental organization to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the person detained, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years or for life and, if the death of any person results, shall be punished by death or life imprisonment.
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