“Giving the Highest Chance of a Good Outcome”: Exploring the Missing Persons Act in British Columbia and Ontario from the Policing Perspective.

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Ferguson, L. (2022). 

British Columbia and Ontario are two of the Canadian provinces and territories that have enacted a Missing Persons Act, legislation aimed at improving the police investigation of missing person cases. Understanding the Acts in these regions from the policing perspective presents an opportunity to assess their efficacy and utility. Therefore, the purposes of this study are to examine police perceptions of and experiences with the Missing Persons Act in each region.

The abstract is available to view online with restricted access to the full article. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice > Vol. 64, No. 4 > DOI: 10.3138/cjccj.2021-0057

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