Long-Term Missing-Persons and No-Body Cold Case Investigations

2017 ◽  
pp. 139-150
Author(s):  
Tad DiBIase ◽  
R. H. Walton
Keyword(s):  
Missing Persons ◽  
Cold Case

scholarly journals I’ve changed, but I’m not less happy: Interview study among nonclinical relatives of long-term missing persons

Death Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 346-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lonneke I. M. Lenferink ◽  
Jos de Keijser ◽  
Eline Piersma ◽  
Paul A. Boelen
Keyword(s):  
Interview Study ◽  
Missing Persons

Exploring the relationship between cold case homicide survivors and the media

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley RP Wellman
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Homicide Survivors ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
The Media ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Media Professionals ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cold Case

After a homicide, survivors are thrust into relationships with a myriad of professionals. For cold case homicide survivors, these relationships are likely to develop into long-term, persistent interactions. Interviews from 24 cold case homicide survivors in the United States reveal that media professionals are often the source of additional trauma, and yet, most survivors expressed a need for continued communication and continued coverage of their case. Utilizing social constructivist grounded theory for data collection and analysis, common themes emerging from the survivors’ stories include inadequate coverage of the case, inaccurate portrayal of victim or information, negative reactions to the media, and positive experiences and desire for long-term coverage. Implications and recommendations for survivors and media professionals are detailed within.

Cold Case Reviews

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Allsop
Keyword(s):  
Dna Profiling ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Review Team ◽  
Case Files ◽  
Profiling Techniques ◽  
Cold Case

Investigating Cold Cases: DNA, Detective Work, and Unsolved Major Crimes, analyses how long-term unsolved murders and unsolved stranger rapes are investigated years after the crimes were committed. The book examines how and why cold case investigations have become an established component of police investigative practice, the role of specialist expertise used, in particular DNA profiling techniques and technologies, and the investigative skills required to finally detect cold cases. The book is based on original fieldwork with one major crime review team as they investigated cold case murders and cold case stranger rapes, interviews with a variety of experts involved in cold case investigations, and analysis of police case files. Above all else, the book will examine the reliance on advances in DNA profiling techniques, to identify previously unknown offenders and suggests that alongside these technological advances it is traditional detective skills that are also necessary to finally detect these crimes.

The Rape of Kuwait’s National Memory

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-84
Author(s):  
Bruce P. Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Missing Persons ◽  
National Memory ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Cold Case ◽  
Invasion Of Iraq

Abstract:In the August 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Iraqi forces prosecuted a mass campaign of pillage and destruction. Under the coordinated direction of Iraqi curators who were well acquainted with Kuwait’s cultural treasures, occupying Iraqi troops plundered thousands of cultural objects from museums, libraries, and archives. Among the pillaged cultural spoils were Kuwait’s national archives, comprising the emirate’s historical memory. Until recently, Iraq was beholden to UN sanctions demanding the return of missing persons and property, including Kuwait’s archives. Although the United Nations Security Council for many years has facilitated efforts to search for the lost archives, these efforts have proved futile. This article explores the plausibility of the two most likely scenarios surrounding the cold case of Kuwait’s missing archives: 1) that the current search for the archives has overlooked the possibility that they were unknowingly seized by US forces in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and are currently being held by the Pentagon; and 2) that the archives may have been intentionally destroyed as part of Saddam Hussein’s aim to obliterate Kuwait’s national identity and annex the emirate as Iraq’s nineteenth province.

scholarly journals Constructing time in uncertainty: Temporal regimes among missing persons’ families

2020 ◽  
pp. 001139212090223
Author(s):  
Ori Katz ◽  
Karen Shalev Greene
Keyword(s):  
Dead Time ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Relational View ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Missing Persons ◽  
Parallel Time ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article examines how concepts of time undergo transformation in cases of extreme uncertainty by examining the experiences of missing persons’ families in Israel. Living with uncertainty, the relatives of those who go missing fluctuate among imaginations of past, present and future and among ontological assumptions about the missing persons’ fate. Taking a relational view of time, the authors claim that – in contrast to the passivity usually attributed to them – families of the missing dynamically construct different temporal regimes in a process that both reflects and shapes the missing’s ontological status. Drawing on in-depth interviews with families of long-term missing persons in Israel, the authors identify three such temporal regimes: Parallel Time, Presumed Dead Time and Perpetual Time. Their analysis draws attention to time’s role in negotiations over ambiguous categories in late modernity, particularly over those categories that blur the life–death dichotomy.

Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Social Stressors ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

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