Concept in Definition ABC

Person captured with violence and against her will by a criminal with the intention of being her guarantee

In our language the word hostage designates that person who is taken by the force, normally captured with violence and against his will, by a criminal, with the intention that it be his warranty while the negotiation with a third party lasts, for example the policeman, a negotiator. I mean, the hostage is a species kidnapped, who is deprived of his Liberty until the criminal who has him imprisoned decides to release him.

The letter to achieve agreements or benefits after the criminal act

In bank or home robberies, it is very common for criminals to take hostage employees and clients, or the inhabitants of the house, respectively, to to be able to get out alive and escape from the police who already have them surrounded or also to reach an agreement that will benefit them if they surrender and release the hostages healthy and saved. Because normally hostages are taken under this circumstance, when the forces of

safety Correspondents have intervened and physically arrived at the scene and somehow they have cornered the criminal.

A traumatic situation for the hostage

It should be noted that this situation is always very traumatic for those who fall hostage because it is common for them to receive physical and verbal threats all the time from criminals. There are hostage taking that can take long hours and of course the hostage is the one who is most tense and fearful of being left in the middle of a shootout between police and criminals or that the criminal decides to kill him due to the impossibility of leaving healthy and saved and come to terms with the police.

The integrity of the hostage is privileged

If we review the history of this type of hostage-taking attacks, we find that they can end well, with the criminal surrendering after reaching a agreement and releasing the hostages, or failing that, very badly, with hostages killed by criminals or by the police if they are used as human shields to escape.
Now, we must emphasize that the police always privilege the lives of hostages and that is why except for one crazy act on the part of the criminal, the police, do not attack the captor if the life of the hostage.

Of course taking hostages is a crime and at Author of the fact it fits him a penalty for it.

Hostage Issues