Handbook of Missing Persons
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- Stephen J. Morewitz 0 ,
- Caroline Sturdy Colls 1
Nursing and Health Sciences, California State University, East Bay, San Francisco, USA
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- Interdisciplinary volume covering a range of forensic research in diverse settings
- Discuss the impact of disasters on locating missing individuals
- Investigates the ethics and social policy aspects of missing persons investigations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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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
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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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