kidnapping
Every parent worst fear is their child being kidnapped. Every person always says the same thing, “the odds of that happening to me are unlikely”, then the unthinkable happens, abductor strikes leaving worried petrified parents. Citizens always question how someone could do such a thing, that there has to be something mentally wrong about people that kidnap; statistics and stories prove that abductors are psychologically ill in different ways. Furthermore all states categorize kidnapping as a felony offense, though states have different degrees of felonies that have different sentences with them. More serious penalties are typically given in cases where a victim is a child, victim was injured or sexually assaulted. The law of kidnapping stands today at “the crime of unlawfully seizing and carrying away a person or seizing and detaining a person against his or her will with an intent to carry that person away a later time.” A person convicted of abduction could serve up a sentence of twenty years up to a lifetime in prison depending on past convictions. Prison, fines, probation and death are all examples that kidnappers would receive. Basing off the laws of kidnapping, psychologist have proved that people convicted of kidnapping have psychological problems. Professor Kevin Browne, Psychologist at University of Birmingham States “abductors usually are not mentally healthy and the abductors take infants because they have lost their own baby.” Browne was explaining that usually abductors take action because they have had a trauma in their own life, could be loosing a child, being beaten, anything really. The psychology behind kidnapping often leads back to wanting power over an individual. As for sexual purposes the abductor does not do it for the physical gratification, but for the thrill they have complete power over their victims. A kidnappers mentality is that once they have another person in their possession; that person has to rely on them for everything
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