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Finding the missing: using statement analysis to assist in missing persons cases

Journal of Criminal Psychology, 2023
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address the complexity of missing persons cases and highlight the linguistic differences that arise in this type of crime. Missing persons cases are typically very complex investigations.
Yasmin Richards, M. McClish, D. Keatley
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Native Missing Persons Cases Will Not be Solved by Police Alone: The Case for “Missing Persons Advocates”

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2023
This study explored the potential role of victim advocacy in Native American missing person cases. Interviews with 25 tribal and non-tribal victim/social service providers were conducted to assess their perspectives on the factors which make Native ...
S. L. Gilbert, Alyssa Nystrom, Caralin Branscum, Tara N. Richards, E. Wright   +4 more
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Hierarchically Organized Computer Vision in Support of Multi-Faceted Search for Missing Persons

IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition, 2023
Missing person searches are typically initiated with a description of a person that includes their age, race, clothing, and gender, possibly supported by a photo.
Arturo Miguel Russell Bernal, Jane Cleland-Huang   +1 more
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The New Milk Carton Campaign: An Analysis of Social Media Engagement with Missing Persons' Cases

Social Forces, 2021
:The unique feature of social media as a platform for news is that the public can directly engage with content. In this way, the public shapes the narrative on current issues, including crime.
Michelle N. Jeanis, Ráchael A. Powers, Lauren N. Miley, Charlene E Shunick, Margaret Storms   +4 more
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Truth and Closure in Cyprus: An Assessment of the Committee on Missing Persons

Israel 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
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Real time object detection for aerial search and rescue missions for missing persons

International Symposium on Service Oriented Software Engineering, 2020
This paper introduces a solution to stand-alone system based, real-time object-detection, can efficiently facilitate the search for missing persons with an unmanned aerial vehicle. The challenge is the real-time implementation of the systems and training
Zsolt Domozi, D. Stojcsics, Abdallah Benhamida, M. Kozlovszky, A. Molnár   +4 more
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Missing persons

2017
The first chapter aims to reconstruct the rabbinic paradigm of sacrifice as a religious practice, and to examine how the rabbis understand the workings and value of the sacrificial process. Its point of departure is the biblical model of sacrifice, which is an interactive model in essence.
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The “power few” of missing persons’ cases

, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to test the “power few” concept in relation to missing persons and the locations from which they are reported missing.,Data on missing persons’ cases (n = 26,835) were extracted from the record management system of a ...
Laura Huey, Lorna Ferguson, L. Kowalski
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Missing Persons

This chapter examines and highlights the role of nonhuman persons in the ancient Maya economy as owners, regulators, mediators, and end-consumers of a vast quantity and variety of goods. Drawing on ethnohistory, ethnography, epigraphy, and iconography, the chapter seeks to reveal the limitations of focusing solely on human participants and Western ...
Lucia R. Henderson, Brent K. S. Woodfill
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