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==Origin==
probably back-formation from ''kidnapper'', from ''kid'' + obsolete ''napper'' [[thief]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century 1682]
==Definition==
*1: to seize and detain or carry away by unlawful [[force]] or [[fraud]] and often with a demand for [[ransom]]
==Description==
In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_law criminal law], '''kidnapping''' is the taking away or [[transportation]] of a person against that person's will, usually to hold the person in [[false]] [[imprisonment]], a confinement without legal [[authority]]. This may be done for [[ransom]] or in furtherance of another [[crime]], or in connection with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_custody child custody] dispute. When it is done with legal [[authority]], it is often called [[arrest]] or imprisonment.
In some countries such as the United States a large number of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abduction child abductions] arise after [[separation]] or [[divorce]] when one [[parent]] wishes to keep a child against the will of the other or against a [[court]] order. In these cases, some [[jurisdictions]] do not consider it kidnapping if the child, being competent, [[agrees]].
In [[modern]] usage, kidnapping or abduction of a child is often called child [[stealing]] and parental kidnapping, particularly when done not to collect a [[ransom]] but rather with the [[intention]] of keeping the child permanently (often in a case where the child's [[parents]] are [[divorced]] or legally separated, whereupon the parent who does not have legal custody will [[commit]] the act, also known as "childnapping").
Child abduction can refer to [[children]] being taken away without their [[parents]]' [[consent]] but with the consent of the child.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping]
[[Category: Law]]
==Origin==
probably back-formation from ''kidnapper'', from ''kid'' + obsolete ''napper'' [[thief]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century 1682]
==Definition==
*1: to seize and detain or carry away by unlawful [[force]] or [[fraud]] and often with a demand for [[ransom]]
==Description==
In [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_law criminal law], '''kidnapping''' is the taking away or [[transportation]] of a person against that person's will, usually to hold the person in [[false]] [[imprisonment]], a confinement without legal [[authority]]. This may be done for [[ransom]] or in furtherance of another [[crime]], or in connection with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_custody child custody] dispute. When it is done with legal [[authority]], it is often called [[arrest]] or imprisonment.
In some countries such as the United States a large number of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abduction child abductions] arise after [[separation]] or [[divorce]] when one [[parent]] wishes to keep a child against the will of the other or against a [[court]] order. In these cases, some [[jurisdictions]] do not consider it kidnapping if the child, being competent, [[agrees]].
In [[modern]] usage, kidnapping or abduction of a child is often called child [[stealing]] and parental kidnapping, particularly when done not to collect a [[ransom]] but rather with the [[intention]] of keeping the child permanently (often in a case where the child's [[parents]] are [[divorced]] or legally separated, whereupon the parent who does not have legal custody will [[commit]] the act, also known as "childnapping").
Child abduction can refer to [[children]] being taken away without their [[parents]]' [[consent]] but with the consent of the child.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping]
[[Category: Law]]
