The word "carjacking" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to an act of robbery in which a person is forced out of their vehicle by an attacker and then robbed. Example sentence: The thief was convicted of carjacking, and sentenced to five years in prison.
Not so long ago, that might have heralded extortion, carjacking or kidnapping, of which there were over 400 recorded cases in the state as recently as 2004.
Crime is rising; carjacking street gangs post their ransom demands on Twitter.
One focus of victimology has centred on identifying and measuring the frequency (both annual incidence and lifetime prevalence rates) of various types of victimizations, such as stalking, date rape, and carjacking.
Wednesday's violence began at the Tri City Inn in Mesa when the gunman opened fire on a man and two women following some kind of altercation, then fled to a nearby restaurant where he shot and wounded a student while carjacking another person's vehicle, Flores said.
Waagner, an avowed opponent of abortion who has been convicted of bank robbery, carjacking and firearms offences, escaped from an Illinois prison in February.
The Atlantic posted an interesting excerpt from "A Question of Freedom," the memoir of R. Dwayne Betts, a poet and former Atlantic intern, about the nine years he served in prison, for carjacking.
Officials said the three victims were suspected of carjacking.
A man was fueling up at a gas station near London, Ohio, when at least two carjacking suspects approached and shot him in the head early Saturday.
In "96 Minutes" the writer-director Aimee Lagos, in her feature debut, begins by thrusting viewers into the middle of the action: a carjacking.
In a 28-hour span, Mr. Gelman stole four cars — two by carjacking — and injured four people before the police arrested him on a Manhattan subway on Feb. 12. On Wednesday in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, Acting Justice Vincent Del Giudice sentenced Mr. Gelman to 200 years to life in prison, a term the judge had promised to impose.
Such criminals, the advisory continued, "commit crimes such as murder, kidnapping, carjacking, armed robbery, rapes, and other aggravated assaults".
