Combating political hostage‐taking

Rational actor models have examined the effects of increasing punishment or the probability of apprehension on terrorists activities including hostage‐taking. This paper attempts to introduce a policy tool in the form of a reward so as to examine the impact of a policy‐mix of penalties and rewards o...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Shahin, Wassim (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Islam, Muhammad (author)
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منشور في: 1992
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/3677
http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1080/10430719208404740
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10430719208404740
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Shahin, W. N., & Islam, M. Q. (1992). Combating political hostage‐taking: An alternative approach. Defence and Peace Economics, 3(4), 321-327.
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description Rational actor models have examined the effects of increasing punishment or the probability of apprehension on terrorists activities including hostage‐taking. This paper attempts to introduce a policy tool in the form of a reward so as to examine the impact of a policy‐mix of penalties and rewards on the behavior of hostage‐takers. The results reached show that given hostage‐taking behavior and government cost, a policy‐mix of punishment and reward may have a greater impact on reducing hostage‐taking than any individual policy of pure punitive actions or pure reward. The penalty‐reward combination is likely to be Pareto superior to a policy depending completely on punitive actions.
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