Missing persons patterns from Mexico: evidence of a forensic emergency crisis. [PDF]
Forensic Sci Res, 2023 The relatives of missing persons in Mexico have denounced the slowness with which a court prosecution file is created by the justice administration system.
Quinto-Sanchez M, Huerta-Pacheco NS.
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The Office on Missing Persons in Sri Lanka: Why Truth Is a Radical Proposition [PDF]
International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2023 In 2016, the Sri Lanka Parliament passed the Office on Missing Persons Act (OMP) ‘to search for and trace missing persons.’ At the time, Sinhala Buddhist nationalist leaders strongly objected to it.
Chulani Kodikara
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Materials for the study of the locus operandi in the search for missing persons in Italy. [PDF]
Forensic Sci Res, 2022 Geographic profiling, or locus operandi, is a scientific approach that has been applied to forensic investigations for several years. However, it has never been applied to a phenomenon as complex as the search for missing persons.
Barone PM, Di Maggio RM, Mesturini S.
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Locked in grief: a qualitative study of grief among family members of missing persons in southern Sri Lanka. [PDF]
BMC Psychol, 2021 The psychological and social issues experienced by family members of missing persons are different from normal grief following the death of a loved one. The term “Ambiguous loss” describes this psychological phenomenon.
Isuru A, Bandumithra P, Williams SS.
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An initial overview of the National Policy on the Search for Missing Persons in Brazil
Forensic Science International: Reports, 2022 The missing and unidentified persons problem affects every country in the world differently. In Brazil, aspects of the investigation and identification of persons are deficient and, among other things, need better policies and integrated procedures. This
Melina Calmon Silva +8 more
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Mitochondrial Sequencing of Missing Persons DNA Casework by Implementing Thermo Fisher's Precision ID mtDNA Whole Genome Assay. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2020 The advent of massively parallel sequencing (MPS) in the past decade has opened the doors to mitochondrial whole-genome sequencing. Mitochondrial (mt) DNA is used in forensics due to its high copy number per cell and maternal mode of inheritance ...
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Alternative workflows for identifying transnational missing persons [PDF]
Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2023 Mass migration and migrant death at the U.S. southern border highlight the disconnectedness of the systems for transnational decedent identifications.
Molly A. Kaplan +8 more
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Risk factors and missing persons: advancing an understanding of ‘risk’
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 This study seeks to advance an understanding of ‘risk’ for persons going missing—a phenomenon also known as missingness. There is a need to clarify terms used to describe correlations or statistical associations between variables that are identified as ...
Lorna Ferguson
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Mental health and psychosocial support for families of missing persons in Sri Lanka: A retrospective cohort study. [PDF]
Confl Health, 2020 Background The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has developed its ‘Accompaniment model’ to address the multi-faceted needs of relatives of people who go missing during armed conflict. In Sri Lanka an Accompaniment Programme was launched in
Andersen I +4 more
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The Endless Grief in Waiting: A Qualitative Study of the Relationship between Ambiguous Loss and Anticipatory Mourning amongst the Relatives of Missing Persons in Italy. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel), 2020 This article presents the results of a qualitative study aiming to consider the relationship between ambiguous loss and anticipatory mourning amongst relatives of missing people in Italy.
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