Stockholm Syndrome

Stockholm Syndrome is a phenomenon observed in criminology by which victims of abduction or hostage feel sympathy towards their captors and may even support their criminal acts.

Examples

1. It was first observed and named after a bank robbery attempt in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1973. The hostages when freed by police action hagged and kissed their captors god-bye.
2. In 1974, Patty Hearst became an accomplice to her abductors, the Symbionese Liberation Army.
3. In 1985, a passenger of an airplane that was hijacked from Athens to Lebanon declared his sympathy with the hijackers.
4. In 2002, a boy,Shawn Hornbeck, was abducted in Missouri for 4 years. During this time he was at the police reporting his stolen bike, but not that he was held captured.
5. In 2006, Natascha Kampusch ran free after 10 years of imprisonment. Her captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, committed suicide to avoid punishment, but Natascha did not express satisfaction but regret and grieve.