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Check Your Sources – What the Public Needs to Know About Missing Persons Data

I am writing this blog in follow up to Lorna Ferguson’s insightful post from January 26, 2021: “We Need Usable National Data on Missing Persons, Now” . As an investigator, I lose sleep over missing persons. Having shared a small part of the story of hundreds of families, I feel the pain associated with each one and feel helpless when there is nothing I can do to resolve it. Even though I have been fortunate enough not to have personally experienced this type of ambiguous loss

Cpl. Jennifer Sparkes

A Call for Including Missing Persons in Victimological Scholarship

Missing persons research has relevance in victimological scholarship, and that with such research, we could begin to advance...

Michelle N. Eliasson