Crimes Against Persons, Property

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Unit 9 Assignment Crimes Against Persons, Property And Public Order Norman Jones CJ 230-02 Kidnapping Defined by Virginia state statutes as: “Any person who, by force, intimidation or deception, and without legal justification or excuse, seizes, takes, transports, detains or secretes another person with the intent to deprive such other person of his personal liberty or to withhold or conceal him from any person, authority or institution lawfully entitled to his charge, shall be deemed guilty of "abduction." (§ 18.2-47). The criminal intent (mens rea) of kidnapping is to move or confine an individual against their will (Lippman M.2012). Also secretly confining or imprisoning an individual or carrying them out of state while they are held to service against their will also holding an individual for a specific purpose such as ransom, a hostage, to use as a shield in the commission of another felonious crime (Lippman M.2012). The criminal act (actus reus) is the movement or detention of an individual without their consent by force or threat of force (Lippman M.2012). The MPL states: “confining an individual for a substantial period of time in an isolated location with a specified intent. This is intended to punish the “frightening and dangerous” removal of a victim from a safe environment to an “isolated” location where he or she is outside the protection of the law.” Pg. 396 (Lippman M.2012). This is a crime against persons and punishable in all but four states by life in prison or the death penalty. Kidnapping is considered a Mala in se or inherently evil crime was originally a misdemeanor under common law but the Federal Kidnapping Law of 1932 (Lindbergh Law) made it a federal crime to transport victims across state lines to collect ransoms or rewards (Lippman M. 2012). In 1974 Patricia Hearst was kidnapped by a group
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