Penny S. Woolnough's research while affiliated with University of Dundee and other places
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Publications (2)
Despite the inherent vulnerability of missing children and the associated emotional intensity for those affected, there has been no academic exploration of child development and missing behaviour. The current enquiry comprised an examination of police case records to determine how the circumstances and behaviour of missing children varies across ea...
Missing persons incidents incur considerable societal costs but research has overwhelmingly concentrated on missing children. Understanding of the phenomenon among adults is underdeveloped as a result. We conducted an evolutionary concept analysis of the ‘missing person’ in relation to adults. Evolutionary Concept Analysis provides a structured nar...
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... The research has mainly focused on five different facets: explanation of the phenomenon (causes and motives); description of missing people and disappearances; study of the effectiveness of missing person appeals; building empirical missing person's typologies; and identification of risk factors of harm/fatal outcomes (e.g. Baker et al., 2002;Biehal et al., 2003;Lampinen et al., 2009;Bonny et al., 2016;Buckley, 2012;Sarkin, 2019;Woolnough et al., 2019;García-Barceló et al., 2020a, b, c;Huey & Ferguson, 2020;Woolnough & Cunningham, 2020). ...
... Uno de los ámbitos que más preocupación social genera es el de las desapariciones de personas. Durante las últimas décadas se ha notado un incremento en el número de publicaciones sobre personas desaparecidas en las que se señala la necesidad de estandarizar la respuesta institucional inicial ante esta problemática en función de la evidencia científica (Taylor et al., 2018). Específicamente, estas publicaciones se han centrado en la a) explicación del fenómeno (causas y motivos), b) descripción de las personas desaparecidas y las desapariciones, c) estudio de la efectividad de las alertas por desaparición, d) construcción de tipologías empíricas y e) identificación de factores de riesgo de resultar dañado o fallecido (García-Barceló, 2020;Woolnough et al., 2019). ...
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