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Adult missing persons: a concept analysis [PDF]

open access: greenPsychology, Crime and Law, 2018
Missing persons incidents incur considerable societal costs but research has overwhelmingly concentrated on missing children. Understanding the phenomenon among adults is underdeveloped as a result.
Claire Taylor   +2 more
semanticscholar   +6 more sources

Cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness for relatives of missing persons: a pilot study. [PDF]

open access: yesPilot Feasibility Stud, 2019
ObjectivesRelatives of long-term missing persons need to deal with uncertainties related to the disappearance. These uncertainties may give rise to ruminative thinking about the causes and consequences of the loss. Focusing on tolerating uncertainties in
Lenferink LIM   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Truth and Closure in Cyprus: An Assessment of the Committee on Missing Persons

open access: greenIsrael Law Review, 2021
There are two key limitations to the literature that explores the relationship between truth and closure in post-violence societies. The first is that this relationship has been assessed mostly as part of a larger debate focusing on the links between the
Nasia Hadjigeorgiou
openalex   +2 more sources

Predicting the locations of missing persons in China by using NGO data and deep learning techniques

open access: yesInternational Journal of Digital Earth
Missing person crimes can seriously affect the well-being of Chinese families, and missing person destination prediction can help to solve this problem.
Anning Dong   +9 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Mobile alert app to engage community volunteers to help locate missing persons with dementia. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Forensic geophysics: ground penetrating radar (GPR) techniques and missing persons investigations. [PDF]

open access: yesForensic Sci Res, 2019
: Ground penetrating radar (GPR) investigations have the potential to non-destructively detect buried or hidden targets and are therefore often used in forensic research. This study presents a particular application of GPR methods to search for a missing
Barone PM, Di Maggio RM.
europepmc   +2 more sources

An Innovative Technique for Identification of Missing Persons in Natural Disaster Based on Drone-Femtocell Systems. [PDF]

open access: yesSensors (Basel), 2019
The recent development of the IoT (Internet of Things), which has enabled new types of sensors that can be easily interconnected to the Internet, will also have a significant impact in the near future on the management of natural disasters (mainly ...
Avanzato R, Beritelli F.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Disproportion and Decision: Ethnic Minority Overrepresentation and Police Risk Assessment in Missing Persons Cases [PDF]

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences
Disproportionality 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
doaj   +2 more sources

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