Offenses of seizing people for money or for marriage, including kidnapping for ransom, the quick kidnapping at cash machines, the fraud of a pretended kidnapping, the kidnapping of a bride and the forced recruitment of sailors. An offense belongs here when a person is taken by force or trick and a payment or a marriage is the aim. It excludes ordinary kidnapping, which is in the harm-to-the-person subcategory. Entries placed here are Kidnapping for Ransom, Tiger Kidnapping, Express Kidnapping, Virtual Kidnapping, Bride Kidnapping, Bride Buying and Shanghaiing.
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Tiger kidnapping (Wikipedia)
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A tiger kidnapping or tiger robbery involves two separate crimes.
Bride Kidnapping (Wikipedia)
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Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, is a practice in which a man or boy abducts the woman or girl he wishes to marry.
Bride buying (Wikipedia)
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Bride buying or bride purchasing is the cultural practice of providing some form of payment in exchange for a bride.
Shanghaiing (Wikipedia)
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Shanghaiing or crimping is the practice of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence.
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: 18 U.S. Code § 1201 - Kidnapping
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Whoever unlawfully seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away and holds for ransom or reward or otherwise any person, except in the case of a minor by the parent thereof, when,
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Whoever unlawfully seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away and holds for ransom or reward or otherwise any person, except in the case of a minor by the parent thereof, when,
View the Source 18 U.S.C. 875, Interstate communications (Cornell LII)
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Whoever, with intent to extort from any person, firm, association, or corporation, any money or other thing of value, transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
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