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Terrorist taking and kidnapping the hostage has become an international concern in nowadays. According to the recent statistics they are nearly 2000 hostages are taken during the last 10 years. Hostages taking, and kidnapping can happen anytime or anywhere in the place. The main issue is the important developments in the war on terrorism. In any case, there has been minimal criminal justice research on this developing concern. One explanation for this lack of study can be clarified by the shortage of important information on terrorist hostage-taking and kidnapping.

Different particular contextual analyses are additionally a part of hostage-taking and kidnapping studies. This classification tends to take a particular instance of hostage-taking and kidnapping by incidence. This has specific legitimacy since it gives a subjective comprehension of the elements of hostage-taking/seizing. Accordingly, with different areas of terrorism, it is sensible to expect a parallel development of terrorist hostage-taking and kidnapping. Nevertheless, past examinations neglected to get a handle on the critical change in light of the fact that a larger part of studies was conducted before September 11th. Data is utilized in this study is a bit of the database on terrorism incidents overall gathered by the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups (ISVG). The information has been gathered altogether from open sources, which are characterized as data that isn't esteemed arranged or confined and are promptly available without the requirement for an exceptional status from a governmental organization. The information gathered here come from thirteen particular specific categories of sources: books, communications like broadcasts, court documents, datasets, FBIS2 (Foreign Broadcasting Information System), governmental reports, Journals. First, religion can be a vital predicting factor for the result of a hostage-taking and kidnapping incident. According to White (2003), religious impacted terrorists will probably murder their victims. In this specific situation, when hostage-takers are strongly affected by religious fanaticism, they will probably execute their hostage than non-religious prisoner takers. They might need to punish non-believers or traitors or eliminate individual seen as evil.

References

 Scott, C. V. (2000). Bound for glory: The hostage crisis as a captivity narrative in Iran. International Studies Quarterly, 44(1), 177. Retrieved from http://0-eds.a.ebscohost.com.library.acaweb.org/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=5&sid=2c4a55fc-920d-4b03-9fa8-92b8ad2d5721%40sessionmgr4008

Russell, B. (2008). Taken Hostage: The Iranian Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter With Radical Islam David Farber. The Historian, (2), 308. Retrieved from http://0-eds.a.ebscohost.com.library.acaweb.org/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=7&sid=2c4a55fc-920d-4b03-9fa8-92b8ad2d5721%40sessionmgr4008