Handbook of Missing Persons (book).

Edited by Stephen J. Morewitz and Caroline Sturdy Colls (2016, UK)

Includes:

  1. Missing Persons: An Introduction by Stephen J. Morewitz, Caroline Sturdy Colls
  2. A Profile of Missing Persons: Some Key Findings for Police Officers by Shaunagh Foy
  3. Missing Person Appeals: A UK Perspective by Lucy Holmes
  4. The Rhetoric and Reality of the AMBER Alert: Empirical and Public Discourse Considerations Regarding the Child Abduction Phenomenon by Timothy Griffin
  5. Secondary Victimization in Missing Children Events by Peggy S. Plass
  6. Conduct Problems Among Runaway and Homeless Teens by Stephen J. Morewitz
  7. Pregnancy and Parenting Among Runaway and Homeless Young Women by Sanna J. Thompson, Stephanie Begun, Kimberly Bender
  8. Missing Persons: Forensic Sociology Factors by Stephen J. Morewitz
  9. Missing Someone: Exploring the Experiences of Family Members by Lucy Holmes
  10. Geographies of Missing People: Improving Police Knowledge and Response to Missing Persons by Olivia Stevenson, Penny Woolnough
  11. Prospective Person Memory in the Search for Missing Persons by James Michael Lampinen, Kara N. Moore
  12. Ethical Challenges in Missing Persons Investigations by Joyce Kim, Jackie Leach Scully, Sara Huston Katsanis
  13. Forensic Genetics Against Children Trafficking: Missing Children Genetic Identification by María Saiz, Maria Jesus Alvarez-Cubero, Juan Carlos Alvarez, Jose Antonio Lorente
  14. Missing Persons Investigations and Identification: Issues of Scale, Infrastructure, and Political Will by Soren Blau
  15. Missing Persons in Croatia: Incidence, Characteristics and Police Performance Effectiveness by Ksenija Butorac, Ljiljana Mikšaj-Todorović, Mislav Stjepan Žebec
  16. Investigation of Long-Term Missing Persons as Cold Case Homicides: An American Perspective by Rachel Walton, Silvia Pettem
  17. Estimating the Appearance of the Missing: Forensic Age Progression in the Search for Missing Persons by James Michael Lampinen, William Blake Erickson, Charlie D. Frowd, Gregory Mahoney
  18. The Role of Forensic Archaeology in Missing Persons Investigations by Eric J. Bartelink, Colleen F. Milligan, Caroline Sturdy Colls
  19. The Use of Dogs in Missing Persons Investigations by Mick Swindells
  20. Advances in Forensic Entomology in Missing Persons Investigations by Stefano Vanin
  21. Forensic Palynology and Environmental Profiling in Missing Persons Investigations by Tony Brown
  22. DNA Methods to Identify Missing Persons by Edna Sadayo Miazato Iwamura, Marco Aurélio Guimarães, Martin Paul Evison
  23. Trace DNA Profiling in Missing Persons Investigations by Roland A. H. van Oorschot, Bianca Szkuta, Timothy J. Verdon, R. John Mitchell, Kaye N. Ballantyne
  24. The Advantages of Noncriminal Genetic Databases in Identifying Missing Persons and Human Remains by María Saiz, Maria Jesus Alvarez-Cubero, Juan Carlos Alvarez, Jose Antonio Lorente
  25. Privacy Challenges with Genetic Information by Joyce Kim, Sara Huston Katsanis
  26. The Identification of Missing Persons Using Fingerprints by Sarah Fieldhouse, Karen Stow
  27. Forensic Anthropology and Missing Persons Investigations by Lucina Hackman
  28. Forensic Facial Reconstruction and Its Contribution to Identification in Missing Person Cases by Martin Paul Evison, Edna Sadayo Miazato Iwamura, Marco Aurélio Guimarães, Damian Schofield
  29. Stable Isotope Forensics as an Investigative Tool in Missing Persons Investigations by Eric J. Bartelink, Amy T. Mackinnon, Julia R. Prince-Buitenhuys, Brett J. Tipple, Lesley A. Chesson
  30. The Use of Trace Evidence in Missing Persons Investigations by Claire Gwinnett
  31. Mass Grave Investigation and Identifying Missing Persons: Challenges and Innovations in Archaeology and Anthropology in the Context of Mass Death Environments by Ian Hanson
  32. Evolution of Disaster Victim Identification (DVI/DVM): An Overview of Management and Pitfalls by Calle Winskog, Roger W. Byard
  33. Evaluating the Role of Forensic Anthropologists in Human Rights Investigations of Missing Persons by Roxana Ferllini
  34. The Investigation of Historic Missing Persons Cases: Genocide and ‘Conflict Time’ Human Rights Abuses by Caroline Sturdy Colls

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