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Definition: abduction from Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law
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:the action of abducting [~ of a robbery victim]

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:the tort or felony of abducting a person

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:the unlawful carrying away of a wife or female child or ward for the purpose of marriage or sexual intercourse ◇Sense 2 has its roots in common law. As statutorily defined, mainly in the nineteenth century, abduction was generally stated to include taking away or detention of a woman under a certain age, usu. 16 or 18, with or without her consent or knowledge of her age.


abduction

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
In English law, the taking away by force, fraud, or persuasion of a woman or a child against her own will, or against the will of her parents or guardians. Women and girls There are four offences of abduction of women and girls punishable under the Sexual Offences Act 1956; three are punishable with two years' imprisonment, the fourth, which encompasses the taking away or detaining a woman of any age by force with the intent that she will marry or have unlawful intercourse with the accused or another, is punishable with 14 years' imprisonment. Children The Child Abduction Act 1984, as amended by the Children Act 1989, created two offences of abduction of children under the age of 16. The first offence may be committed by a person ‘connected with’ the child who takes or sends the child out of the UK ‘without appropriate consent’. A person ‘connected with’ a child is the child's parent; in the case of a child whose parents were not married at the time of birth, a man in respect of whom…
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Full text Article Child Abduction in the United States

From The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies
children custody law Abstract Child abduction is every parent's worst nightmare. However, even missing‐persons professionals do not know exactly how many children are abducted each year. Nonetheless, we do know that relatively few children, perhaps 10 percent, are abducted by strangers. …
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Full text Article Kidnapping

From The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Kidnapping is generally and generically defined as the intentional act of forcefully holding, carrying away, and confining a person. Kidnapping relates to and somewhat overlaps with such offenses as abduction, false imprisonment, unlawful restraint, and custodial interference. Kidnapping, as a state…
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Full text Article Kidnapping

From World of Criminal Justice, Gale
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Kidnapping is the transportation or confinement of a person by force, fraud or deception and without the person’s consent . The crime is often accompanied by a demand for ransom . However, an act of extortion may not be necessary to qualify the crime as kidnapping. The laws on kidnapping are not…
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Full text Article abduction

From Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
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Full text Article abduct

From The Chambers Dictionary
to take away by deception or violence; to kidnap; (of a muscle) to cause abduction in (a part of the body). [L abductus , pap of abducere (see abduce )] n a person who is abducted. /-duk' …
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Full text Article Inductive and Deductive

From Key Concepts in Ethnography
In deductive research a hypothesis is derived from existing theory and the empirical world is then explored, and data are collected, in order to test the hypothesis. An inductive approach is where the researcher begins with as few preconceptions as possible, allowing theory to emerge from the data. …
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Full text Article Non-monotonic Logic

From Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
A logic is called non-monotonic if assertions made in a theory in the logic may be retracted when new information is added to the theory. The use of formal logic as a means for computer programming was first seen in the work of Newell, Simon, and Shaw with their ‘logic theory machine’ (Newell and…
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Full text Article WALTON ABDUCTION CASE

From Cultural Studies: The UFO Encyclopedia
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Few abduction reports have generated so much controversy as an incident that began on Wednesday, November 5, 1975, in a remote area of east-central Arizona. Decades later, the dispute still rages. To all but a very few combatants the stakes seem high. If Travis Walton and other participants are…
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Full text Article ABDUCTION

From A Dictionary of Philosophical Logic
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Full text Article abduction

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
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