Searching for missing people on behalf of the friends and family left behind and provide specialised support to ease their heartache and confusion.
Police respond to more than 300,000 missing person reports a year in the UK
The Missing Rights campaign aims for:
- Families of missing people to know everything possible is being done to find their missing loved one.
- Families affected by a disappearance to have access to support.
- Families left behind to be spared the pain of unnecessary financial and legal bureaucracy.
Pauline Boss offers jargon specific to the topic of missing people. This language can be taken into the campaign:
'Ambiguous Loss':
Searching MissingPeople.com lead me to stumble across The Geographies of Missing People Project.
The Geographies of Missing People research project was conducted jointly by a team from Glasgow University, Dundee University and Police Scotland. The study includes in-depth interviews with returned missing adults, family members of missing people and police officers and staff who work on missing person investigations.
The stories are awareness-raising and learning resources intended to prompt new conversations about missing experience.
Missing People, Missing Voices: Stories of Missing Experience - Report
'Ambiguous Loss':
When “a person is physically absent yet psychologically present” (Boss 1999, 2002, 2007). Therefore, the uncertainty and lack of information about an absent loved one is traumatic. The loss is not verified; the natural human need for meaning, sense, security, knowledge, finality and rituals are denied to the family. This ultimately causes a lack of closure.
Searching MissingPeople.com lead me to stumble across The Geographies of Missing People Project.
The Geographies of Missing People research project was conducted jointly by a team from Glasgow University, Dundee University and Police Scotland. The study includes in-depth interviews with returned missing adults, family members of missing people and police officers and staff who work on missing person investigations.
The stories are awareness-raising and learning resources intended to prompt new conversations about missing experience.
2 Reports:
Geographies of Missing People
The stories exist as awareness-raising and learning resources intended to prompt new conversations about missing experience. I intend to include this in my research presentation as it will be credited by the fact it was created by a University with the help of the Police.
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