Find published research, books, statutory guidance, government reports, and other documents on missing persons (and related topics such as forensics, trafficking and exploitation) by searching using the ‘Search‘ box, topics, choosing from the list of recently added documents below, browsing the documents that mention missing persons, or browsing the whole library.
If you’re new to researching missing persons, don’t yet know what to search for, or don’t have a particular topic in mind, then you may find it useful to start here.
We acknowledge the contributions from the University of Portsmouth Centre for Missing Persons Studies and are pleased to host their library of research and documents on this website.
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Topics
Common topics include:
- Abduction
- Abuse, neglect, domestic violence, children in care, child criminal exploitation (CCE) and child sexual exploitation (CSE)
- ADHD, autism, disability, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality
- Appeals
- Characteristics, experiences, reasons, and family conflict
- Cold case
- Dementia and absconding from hospital
- Families and ambiguous loss
- Forensics
- Guidance
- Homicide and fatal outcomes
- Migration and trafficking
- Risk assessment, scale, costs, responses, investigation, police, training, attitudes, professional awareness, good practice and services
- School exclusion, truancy, gangs, and offending
- Search and rescue
- Suicide, mental health, drugs and alcohol
Additional topics are also listed below in alphabetical order. Topics that are covered in more documents appear bigger in the list below, and topics mentioned in fewer documents appear smaller. Click on a topic to view a list of the documents that cover that topic.
abduction abuse adults alcohol attitudes characteristics child criminal exploitation (CCE) children children in care child sexual exploitation (CSE) dementia disability domestic violence drugs ethnicity experiences families family conflict forensics gender geographies homeless investigation law mental health migration Missing Persons neglect offending police professional awareness reasons repeatedly missing responses return interviews risk assessment scale Search search and rescue services social services suicide trafficking training vulnerability
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