'No one is truly there to help': why so little is known about the reasons people go missing

Title
'No one is truly there to help': why so little is known about the reasons people go missing
Publication Date
2020-08-07
Author(s)
Wayland, Sarah
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7040-6397
Email: swaylan2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:swaylan2
Ferguson, Lorna
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
The Conversation Media Group Ltd
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/52649
Abstract

As part of new research into missing persons in Australia, I have been asking people who return after disappearing what they needed or wanted. Mary, who has gone missing four times in the last few years, responded

I just wanted someone to ask if I was OK when I came back.

Voices like Mary's are not often heard, nor are their problems understood, when we talk about the mystery and intrigue of missing persons cases.

Every hour in Australia, 100 police reports are generated about the safety and well-being of a missing person. In the past decade, the rate of reports has increased by 30%, from 30,000 per year to almost 40,000 in 2019.
Link
link
Citation
The Conversation
ISSN
2201-5639
1441-8681
Rights
Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

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