@article{ref1,
title="Applying the criminal narrative experience framework to missing children",
journal="Journal of investigative psychology and offender profiling",
year="2021",
author="Hunt, Daniel",
volume="18",
number="1",
pages="18-34",
abstract="Over 320,000 missing persons are estimated to go missing annually in United Kingdom due to a variety of intentional and unintentional factors. This article aims to investigate whether the criminal narrative experience framework can be applied to missing persons to acquire a deeper insight into the psychological differences between missing children. Sixty-one previously missing persons completed a missing experience survey, narrative roles questionnaire, and emotions questionnaire. Data were content analysed and subjected to a non-metric, multi-dimensional scaling procedure in the form of smallest space analysis. The results identified four distinct behavioural themes as follows: depressed throwaway victim, distressed pushaway revenger, calm runaway professional and elated fallaway hero. Following a stringent criterion, 88.50% of the sample could be differentiated into one dominant behavioural theme with the remaining 11.50% identified as a hybrid theme. Due to the exploratory nature of the study, additional exploration of the applicability of the framework is required.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1544-4759",
doi="10.1002/jip.1567",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jip.1567"
}