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Missing Persons: An Introduction

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Many people go missing each year, and their fate often remains unknown. In Europe, approximately 250,000 children are reported missing annually (Missing Person, n.d.). In the USA, 84,136 active missing person records were maintained in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) on December 31, 2013 (NCIC Missing Person and Unidentified Person Statistics for 2013). About 35,000 individuals are reported missing in Australia on an annual basis (Australian Federal Police, n.d.).

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  1. Department of Nursing and Health Sciences, California State University, East Bay, 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd., Hayward, CA, 94542, USA

    Stephen J. Morewitz Ph.D.

  2. Forensic Archaeology and Genocide Investigation, Science Centre, Staffordshire University, Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 2DF, UK

    Caroline Sturdy Colls Ph.D.

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Morewitz, S.J., Colls, C.S. (2016). Missing Persons: An Introduction. In: Morewitz, S., Sturdy Colls, C. (eds) Handbook of Missing Persons. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40199-7_1

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