Overview
Interdisciplinary volume covering a range of forensic research in diverse settings
Discuss the impact of disasters on locating missing individuals
Investigates the ethics and social policy aspects of missing persons investigations
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
Keywords
- Alzheimer's disease
- Antemortem Dental Records
- DNA analysis
- DNA typing
- Dementia
- Forensic Odontology
- International Commission of Missing Persons'
- Morphological Identification
- compromised samples
- crime scene reconstruction
- endangered runaway
- family reunions with former missing persons
- forensic botany and geology
- forensic entomology
- forensic palynology
- homeless youth
- human remains
- human-centered intelligent web-based
- identifying missing persons
- identifying missing persons
About this book
Among the Handbook’s topics:
·A profile of missing persons: some key findings for police officers.
·Missing persons investigations and identification: issues of scale, infrastructure, and political will.
·Pregnancy and parenting among runaway and homeless young women.
·Estimating the appearance of the missing: forensic age progression in the search for missing persons.
·The use of trace evidence in missing persons investigations.
·The Investigation of historic missing persons cases: genocide and “conflict time” human rights abuses.
The depth and scope of its expertise make the Handbook of Missing Persons useful for criminal justice and forensic professionals, health care and mental health professionals, social scientists, legal professionals, policy leaders, community leaders, and military personnel, as well as for the general public.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Missing Persons
Editors: Stephen J. Morewitz, Caroline Sturdy Colls
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40199-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40197-3Published: 30 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92883-8Published: 22 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40199-7Published: 19 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 585
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 76 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology