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Twelve extraordinary tales of disappearance: a collection of true crime writing by New Zealand's award-winning master of non-fiction. Former journalist Murray Mason, found dead in the Auckland Domain; the mysterious death of Socksay Chansy, found dead in a graveyard by the sea; the tragic disappearance of backpacker Grace Millane, victim of public enemy #1; the enduring mystery of the Lundy family murders... These are stories about how some New Zealanders go missing - the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: The "Silent Mass Disaster" -- Chapter One: Vanished -- Chapter Two: Missing on Purpose -- Chapter Three: Taken Against Their Will -- Chapter Four: A Case Without a Body -- Chapter Five: Identifying John Doe or Jane Doe -- Notes -- Glossary -- For More Information -- Index -- Picture Credits -- About the Author -- Back Cover

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Editors -- About the Authors -- 1: Missing Persons: An Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Social Sciences and Missing Persons Investigations -- 1.3 Ethical Issues and Missing Persons Inquiries -- 1.4 "Missing Presumed…?" -- 1.5 Physical Sciences and Missing Persons Investigations -- 1.6 Conclusions -- References -- 2: A Profile of Missing Persons: Some Key Findings for Police Officers -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Incidence Rates in Australia -- 2.3 Making a Risk Assessment -- 2.4 Lack of Missing Persons Research -- 2.5 Previous Missing Persons Research -- 2.6 Profiling Applied to Missing Persons Cases -- 2.6.1 Defining Runaway, Suicide and Foul Play Missing Persons -- 2.6.2 Analysing Runaway, Suicide and Foul Play Missing Persons -- 2.6.2.1 Criterion Selection and Data Reduction -- 2.6.2.2 The Analyses -- 2.7 Overview of Entire Missing Persons Sample -- 2.8 Conclusion -- References -- 3: Missing Person Appeals: A UK Perspective -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Missing Persons in the UK -- 3.3 Appeal Methods in the UK Context -- 3.3.1 Missing Person Posters -- 3.3.2 Physical Items -- 3.3.3 Broadcast and Print Media -- 3.3.4 Online, Digital and Innovative Methods -- 3.4 Challenges and Risks -- 3.5 Content of Appeals -- 3.6 Aims of Missing Person Appeals -- 3.6.1 Aim 1: To Elicit Information That Will Help Locate the Missing Person -- 3.6.1.1 The Appeal Should Reach a Suitably Large and Appropriate Audience -- 3.6.1.2 There Must Be Sufficient Content to Allow Identification, and the Target Audience Must Be Capable of Recognising the Missing Person -- 3.6.1.3 There Should Be Clear Instructions for the Target Audience -- 3.6.1.4 Target Audience Must Be Willing and Able to Share Information -- 3.6.1.5 The Information Generated Must Be Useable

In many armed conflicts, forced disappearances and hiding the bodies of victims of mass atrocities are used strategically. This article argues that disappearances are powerful weapons, as their consequences reach from the most intimate relations to the formation of political communities. Consequently, political projects of forced disappearances leave difficult legacies for post-conflict reconciliation, and they give rise to a need to address individuals' and families' needs as well as relations between national and political groups implicated in the conflict. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this articles explores the question of missing persons in post-1992 Bosnia. The processes of identification and practices of remembering and commemorating the missing are analyzed through the concept of liminality. The article argues that the future-oriented temporality of liminality gives rise to numerous practices of encountering the enigma of the missing, while the political atmosphere of postwar Bosnia restricts possibilities of communitas-type relationality across ethnonational differences.

"From missing persons to disenfranchised civil subjects, from individuals tainted with infamy to the dead, Absentees explores the varieties of "nonpersons," human beings all too human, drawing examples, terms and concepts from the archives of European and American literature, legal studies, and the social sciences"--

This manuscript is a review of the book Missing: Persons and Politics by Jenny Edkins and published by Cornell University Press in 2011. It draws on two earlier reviews in providing an overview of the Edkins contribution to an area of research notable by the paucity of attention paid to it by scholars' worldwide.Note: As this was read on an e-reader, no page references are possible for quotations.

The fate of missing persons is a central issue in post-conflict societies facing truth recovery and human rights dilemmas. Despite widespread public sympathy towards relatives, societies emerging from conflict often defer the recovery of missing for decades. More paradoxically, in post-1974 Cyprus, the official authorities delayed unilateral exhumations of victims buried within cemeteries in their own jurisdiction. Analysis of official post-1974 discourse reveals a Greek-Cypriot consensus to emphasise the issue as one of Turkish aggression, thus downplaying in-group responsibilities and the legacy of intra-communal violence. We compare the experience of Cyprus with other post-conflict societies such as Spain, Northern Ireland, and Mozambique and explore the linkages between institutions and beliefs about transitional justice. We argue that elite consensus initiates and facilitates the transition to democracy but often leads to the institutionalization of groups opposing truth recovery even for in-group members.