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hostage taking       Search catalogue 294915699

STA
Approved

UPD
2013-01-25

DUT
gijzeling

DAT
Added 2006. For publications indexed before 2006, see terrorism.

IND
1

MIS
Bron SN Wikipedia (accessed 01.11.2012), New Oxford

PPN
294915699

UDC
323.286x

SN
Historically, seizing and holding someone as security for the fulfilment of a condition, since the 1970s considered a crime or an act of terrorism and often intended only to raise a ransom.

MRF
341.348

BT1
offences against the person

UF
hostages

RT
kidnapping
political violence

BSO
10.05.01 CRIMES AND CRIMINALITY

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