Crime onboard ship is one of these problems. Criminal activity onboard cruise ships runs the spectrum from minor issues such as petty theft to major Class 1 crimes such as sexual assault and murder. However, very little is really known about the criminal activity that takes place aboard ship...
cruise ships); correctional facilities (e.g., detention centers, jails, prisons); and workplaces that are functionally similar to the former examples in their built design (e.g., meatpacking
He spent his days in front of a computer screen in a windowless office at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC, where he had an unexciting job helping to maintain the endless databases of economic statistics that the executives u...
Cruise shipsSecurityStatisticsTouristsThe article reports that U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller has introduced Cruise Passenger Protection Act of 2013 which would require cruise lines to post or report alleged crimes on cruise ships.Stieghorst, Tom
Can Cruise Ships Come Clean about Crime?Elliott, Christopher
The number of missing persons on cruise ships has risen over the last few years. Between 2006 and 2015 the average number of missing persons per year was 21.4. However, from 2011 to 2015 the number ascended to an average of 23 missing people a year (including ferry boat incidents). This...
Although piracy declined dramatically in the 19th century, the practice of hijacking ships and airplanes developed into a new form of piracy in the late 20th century. The affinity between piracy and terrorism became of particular concern after the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise liner by Pale...