Missing Persons: An Introduction -- A Profile of Missing Persons: Some Key Findings for Police Officers -- Missing Persons Appeals: A UK Perspective -- The Rhetoric and Reality of AMBER Alert: Empirical and Public Discourse Considerations Regarding the Child Abduction Phenomenon -- Secondary Victimization in Missing Children Events -- Conduct Problems among Runaway and Homeless Teens -- Pregnancy and Parenting among Runaway and Homeless Young Women -- Missing Persons: Forensic Sociology Factors -- Missing Someone: Exploring the Experiences Of Family Members -- Geographies of Missing People: Improving Police Knowledge and Response to Missing Persons -- Prospective Person Memory in the Search for Missing Persons -- Ethical Challenges in Missing Persons Investigations -- Forensic Genetics Against Children Trafficking: Missing Children Genetic Identification -- Missing Persons Investigations and Identification: Issues of Scale, Infrastructure, and Political Will -- Missing Persons in Croatia: Incidence, Characteristics and Police Performance Effectiveness -- Investigation of Long-Time Missing Persons as Cold Case Homicides: An American Perspective -- Estimating the Appearance of the Missing: Forensic Age Progression in the Search for Missing Persons -- The Role of Forensic Archaeology in Missing Persons Investigations -- The Use of Dogs in Missing Persons Investigations -- Advances in Forensic Entomology in Missing Persons Investigations -- Forensic Palynology and Environmental Profiling in Missing Persons Investigations -- DNA methods to identify missing persons -- Trace DNA profiling in missing persons investigations -- The Advantages of Non-Criminal Genetic Databases in Identifying Missing Persons and Human Remains -- Privacy Challenges with Genetic Information -- Fingerprints -- Forensic Anthropology and Missing Persons Investigations -- Forensic facial reconstruction and its contribution to identification in 'missing person' cases -- Stable Isotope Forensics as an Investigative Tool in Missing Persons Investigations -- The Use of Trace Evidence in Missing Persons Investigations -- Mass Grave Investigation and Identifying Missing Persons: Challenges and Innovations In Archaeology And Anthropology In The Context Of Mass Death Environments -- Evolution of DVI/DVM - an overview of management and pitfalls -- Evaluating the Role of Forensic Anthropologists in Human Rights Investigations of Missing Persons -- The Investigation of Historic Missing Persons Cases - Genocide and 'Conflict Time' Human Rights Abuses.