TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the risk of resulting in homicide and suicide in Spanish missing person cases
AU - García-Barceló, Néstor
AU - Córcoles, Miguel Ángel Alcázar
AU - Menéndez, Javier Revuelta
AU - Woolnough, Penny
AU - González Álvarez, José Luis
N1 - © The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
Data availability statement:
The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study belong to the Spanish Ministry of Interior but restrictions apply to the availability of these data. The data were used under license for the current study, and so are not publicly available.
PY - 2024/12/1
Y1 - 2024/12/1
N2 - The study explores in depth the relationship between missing persons’ psychosocial and criminological characteristics/circumstances and violent-fatal outcomes (suicide and homicide). A relational analytical explicative study of 929 cases and controls was designed using a retrospective and stratified design. Data gathering was conducted through the content analysis of judicial and police information, as well as the development of psychological autopsy techniques and semi-structured interviews with the persons involved in the missing person cases including offenders in prison. Bivariate and multivariate statistical techniques were utilised for analyses. The findings showed that there are different risk and protective factors which can distinguish between good state of health, suicide, and homicide outcomes. This research entails implications for prevention and police risk assessment system.
AB - The study explores in depth the relationship between missing persons’ psychosocial and criminological characteristics/circumstances and violent-fatal outcomes (suicide and homicide). A relational analytical explicative study of 929 cases and controls was designed using a retrospective and stratified design. Data gathering was conducted through the content analysis of judicial and police information, as well as the development of psychological autopsy techniques and semi-structured interviews with the persons involved in the missing person cases including offenders in prison. Bivariate and multivariate statistical techniques were utilised for analyses. The findings showed that there are different risk and protective factors which can distinguish between good state of health, suicide, and homicide outcomes. This research entails implications for prevention and police risk assessment system.
U2 - 10.1007/s10610-023-09536-y
DO - 10.1007/s10610-023-09536-y
M3 - Article
SN - 0928-1371
VL - 30
SP - 545
EP - 565
JO - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
JF - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research
IS - 4
ER -
