Abduction
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Abduction may refer to:
[edit] Abduction of a person or people
- Kidnapping, as a near synonym in criminal law, but sometimes used particularly in cases involving a woman or child
- Bride kidnapping
- Child abduction, the abduction or kidnapping of a young child (or baby) by an older person
- Raptio
- North Korean abductions of Japanese or North Korean abductions of South Koreans, a policy of abduction during the 1970s and 1980s pursued by the North Korean government
- Abduction phenomenon ("alien abduction"), an umbrella term used to describe a number of hypotheses, claims or assertions stating that extraterrestrial creatures kidnap individuals
[edit] Sciences
- Abduction (physiology), a type of movement involving a change in organ or limb position
- Abductive reasoning, a method of reasoning in logic
[edit] Cultural References
- Abducted (album), an album by death metal band Hypocrisy
- Abduction (novel), a 2000 novel by novelist Robin Cook
- Abduction (novel), a 2002 short story by Shelagh Delaney
- Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story, a 2005 American documentary film