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Handbook of Missing Persons

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  • Stephen J. Morewitz 0 ,
  • Caroline Sturdy Colls 1

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Among the Handbook ’s topics:

·A profile of missing persons: some key findings for police officers.

·Missing persons investigations and identification: issues of scale, infrastructure, and political will.

·Pregnancy and parenting among runaway and homeless young women.

·Estimating the appearance of the missing: forensic age progression in the search for missing persons.

·The use of trace evidence in missing persons investigations.

·The Investigation of historic missing persons cases: genocide and “conflict time” human rights abuses.

The depth and scope of its expertise make the Handbook of Missing Persons  useful for criminal justice and forensic professionals, health care and mental health professionals, social scientists, legal professionals, policy leaders, community leaders, and military personnel, as well as for the general public.

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

Front matter, missing persons: an introduction.

  • Stephen J. Morewitz, Caroline Sturdy Colls

A Profile of Missing Persons: Some Key Findings for Police Officers

  • Shaunagh Foy

Missing Person Appeals: A UK Perspective

  • Lucy Holmes

The Rhetoric and Reality of the AMBER Alert: Empirical and Public Discourse Considerations Regarding the Child Abduction Phenomenon

  • Timothy Griffin

Secondary Victimization in Missing Children Events

  • Peggy S. Plass

Conduct Problems Among Runaway and Homeless Teens

Stephen J. Morewitz

Pregnancy and Parenting Among Runaway and Homeless Young Women

  • Sanna J. Thompson, Stephanie Begun, Kimberly Bender

Missing Persons: Forensic Sociology Factors

Missing someone: exploring the experiences of family members, geographies of missing people: improving police knowledge and response to missing persons.

  • Olivia Stevenson, Penny Woolnough

Prospective Person Memory in the Search for Missing Persons

  • James Michael Lampinen, Kara N. Moore

Ethical Challenges in Missing Persons Investigations

  • Joyce Kim, Jackie Leach Scully, Sara Huston Katsanis

Forensic Genetics Against Children Trafficking: Missing Children Genetic Identification

  • María Saiz, Maria Jesus Alvarez-Cubero, Juan Carlos Alvarez, Jose Antonio Lorente

Missing Persons Investigations and Identification: Issues of Scale, Infrastructure, and Political Will

Missing persons in croatia: incidence, characteristics and police performance effectiveness.

  • Ksenija Butorac, Ljiljana Mikšaj-Todorović, Mislav Stjepan Žebec

Investigation of Long-Term Missing Persons as Cold Case Homicides: An American Perspective

  • Rachel Walton, Silvia Pettem

Estimating the Appearance of the Missing: Forensic Age Progression in the Search for Missing Persons

  • James Michael Lampinen, William Blake Erickson, Charlie D. Frowd, Gregory Mahoney

The Role of Forensic Archaeology in Missing Persons Investigations

  • Eric J. Bartelink, Colleen F. Milligan, Caroline Sturdy Colls

The Use of Dogs in Missing Persons Investigations

  • Mick Swindells

Editors and Affiliations

Caroline Sturdy Colls

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Bibliographic information.

Book Title : Handbook of Missing Persons

Editors : Stephen J. Morewitz, Caroline Sturdy Colls

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40199-7

Publisher : Springer Cham

eBook Packages : Behavioral Science and Psychology , Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

Copyright Information : Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

Hardcover ISBN : 978-3-319-40197-3 Published: 30 December 2016

Softcover ISBN : 978-3-319-92883-8 Published: 22 May 2018

eBook ISBN : 978-3-319-40199-7 Published: 19 December 2016

Edition Number : 1

Number of Pages : XXIV, 585

Number of Illustrations : 15 b/w illustrations, 76 illustrations in colour

Topics : Clinical Psychology , Cognitive Psychology

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