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Crime & Delinquency, 2022 Victimization has been anecdotally connected to missing persons within several reviews, inquiries, and media stories, particularly in consequence of missing-turned-serial murder cases.
Lorna Ferguson, Melissa Elliott, Sin Kim
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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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The Impact of Technological Support on Citizen Searches for Missing Persons
Justice Evaluation Journal, 2022 This study explored the effects of technological support on citizen searches during missing persons cases. A qualitative experimental design was used to investigate the effects of the prototype of an app, Sarea, developed by the Dutch police to help ...
Jerôme Lam, N. Kop, Celest Houtman
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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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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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Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2021 The aim of this article is to investigate the nature of information sharing in social media about missing persons by using social media data (mostly Twitter) and conventional media coverage (media archives), adopting a platial perspective to this ...
V. Ceccato, R. Petersson
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Društvene i Humanističke Studije, 2022 The paper theoretically elaborates on the issue of the families of missing persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is still relevant after more than two and a half decades since the last war.
Sabira Gadžo-Šašić +2 more
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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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The Rights of the Families of Missing Persons: Going Beyond International Humanitarian Law
Israel Law Review, 2021 The main aim of the article is to test how states implement international humanitarian law (IHL) with regard to the families of missing persons. The article shows relevant IHL shortcomings and compares them with rules applicable in cases of enforced ...
Grażyna Baranowska
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Constructing time in uncertainty: Temporal regimes among missing persons’ families
Current Sociology, 2021 This article examines how concepts of time undergo transformation in cases of extreme uncertainty by examining the experiences of missing persons’ families in Israel.
O. Katz, Karen Shalev Greene
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