TY - GEN AB - Ransom is a lucrative but very tricky business. Based on in-depth interviews with experts, this text provides an economic analysis of how the trade in hostages works, and uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies. AU - Shortland, Anja, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - HV6595 ET - First edition. ID - 857719 KW - Ransom. KW - Kidnapping. LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815471.001.0001 N2 - Ransom is a lucrative but very tricky business. Based on in-depth interviews with experts, this text provides an economic analysis of how the trade in hostages works, and uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies. SN - 9780191853159 T1 - Kidnap :inside the ransom business / TI - Kidnap :inside the ransom business / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815471.001.0001 ER -