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Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice

No. 17: Research brief: missing persons

Bruce Swanton and Paul R Wilson
ISBN 0 642 13941 5 ; ISSN 0817-8542
March 1989

Abstract

Using data from two research reports, the authors provide an introduction to the issue of missing persons. They cover: definitions of missing persons; who traces them; risk criteria used in responding to missing person reports; and initiatives to improve the tracing of missing persons.

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