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Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice
No. 144: Missing persons: incidence, issues and impacts
Monika Henderson, Peter Henderson and Carol Kiernan
ISBN: 0 642 24145 7 ; ISSN 0817-8542
January 2000
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Abstract
Relatively little is known about the reasons why people go missing, the characteristics of missing persons, and the impact of their disappearance on the community. In 1998, the National Missing Persons Unit commissioned a study to address this information gap and to identify service delivery needs for those affected by the phenomenon of missing persons. This paper summarises that report.
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- Media release: Missing persons affect 360 000 people, cost $72m a year
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