Galiano López, C;
Hunter, J;
Davies, T;
Sidebottom, A;
(2021)
Further evidence on the extent and time course of repeat missing incidents involving children: A research note.
The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
10.1177/0032258x211052900.
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Abstract
This study examines the extent and time course of repeat missing incidents involving children. Using data from one UK police force (n = 2,251), we find (1) that the majority (65%) of missing incidents are repeats, (2) that a small group of repeatedly missing children (n = 43; 6%) account for a sizable proportion of all missing incidents (n=739, 33%) and (3) that the likelihood of a child going missing repeatedly is elevated in the weeks immediately following a previous missing incident. The implications of our findings for future research and for the prevention of missing incidents are discussed.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Further evidence on the extent and time course of repeat missing incidents involving children: A research note |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0032258x211052900 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258x211052900 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Children, missing, police, repeat |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Security and Crime Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10137238 |
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