Abduction (Topical Term)

Encyc. Britannica (kidnapping: criminal offense consisting of the unlawful taking and carrying away of a person by force or fraud or the unlawful seizure and detention of person against his will ... Abducting young women and selling them for purposes of concubinage or prostitution has also been characterized as a form of kidnaping. In current statutes this is often described as abduction ...)

World Book encyc. (kidnapping: the act of seizing and holding a person against his or her will ... The kidnapping of a woman is sometimes referred to as abduction, which may be a separate crime.)

Encyc. Americana (abduction, in criminal law, means the taking away of a wife, child, or ward (usually female) by fraud or persuasion or by open violence, for the purpose of marriage, sexual intercourse, concubinage, or prostitution.)

Black's law dict. (abduction: The act of leading someone away by force or fraudulent persuasion. Some jurisdictions have various elements added to this basic definition, such as that the abductor must have the intent to marry or defile the person, that the abductee must be an underage child, or that the abductor must have the intent to subject the abductee to concubinage or prostitution.)

Here are entered works on the kidnapping of women for the purpose of marriage, sexual intercourse, concubinage, or prostitution.