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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Mobile alert app to engage community volunteers to help locate missing persons with dementia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 The prevalence of persons living with dementia and at risk of going missing is rising. In this study, we engaged persons living with dementia, care partners, police services, search and rescue organizations, and health and social service providers to ...
Noelannah Neubauer +3 more
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Disproportion and Decision: Ethnic Minority Overrepresentation and Police Risk Assessment in Missing Persons Cases [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesDisproportionality in missing persons cases raises critical questions about forensic and legal decision making. In the UK, Black individuals comprise 14% of missing persons but only 3% of the population.
Fiona Gabbert +3 more
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A Complementary Remote-Sensing Method to Find Persons Missing in Water: Two Case Studies
Forensic Sciences, 2023 This short communication discusses how a specific geoarchaeological remote-sensing (RS) method, such as analyzing satellite images through NDWI (Normalized Difference Water Index), can be used to aid in searching and locating persons missing in ...
Pier Matteo Barone +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 The trauma of having a family member missing is commonly described as an ambiguous loss where the finality of the loss is not realized, as is experienced with a death.
Sarah Wayland, Jodie Ward, Jodie Ward
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Legal principles and mechanism in relation to missing persons in SFRY and AP KiM [PDF]
Megatrend Revija, 2021 Resolving the issue of missing persons in the former SFRY, including cases of disappearances and abductions in Kosovo and Metohia, is an important humanitarian and political issue.
Vukonjanski Igor, Obradović Darko
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iDENTIfyme Informative Campaign: Raising Forensic Dental Identification Awareness in the Community [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2021 The identification of human remains can be performed visually through families and next-of-kin, but it is not advisable to rely only on visual recognition; instead, it is preferable to conduct a forensic comparison of antemortem and postmortem data for ...
Emilio Nuzzolese
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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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Anthropological contribution to understanding the position of the families of missing Serbs in Kosovo and Metohia [PDF]
Baština, 2022 This paper approaches the topic of missing Serbs in Kosovo and Metohia by the application of the anthropological theoretical framework on waiting, which treats this waiting process as socially and politically constructed.
Petković Nevena S.
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Stature Estimation for Bosnian Male Population
Biomolecules & Biomedicine, 2006 Since 1996, the Trotter and Gleser formulae to determine the stature of recovered missing persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been used. The purpose of this study is to develop appropriate stature estimation formulae from the length of the femur ...
Nermin Sarajlić +3 more
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