... 10 07 2025 25 09 2025 08 10 2025 In the year 2022/2023, incidents of missing children account for approximately 63% of all missing person cases nationwide [ National Crime Agency (NCA), 2023 ]. Many left their home as a result of adverse circumstances such as domestic violence...

...Daniel Hunt; Dara Mojtahedi Purpose This study aims to examine own-race bias (ORB) in prospective person memory (PPM) and explore whether the effects of ORB were moderated by two factors that are salient to real-world missing person appeals (MPAs): the number of appeals an individual encounters...

...Yasmin Richards; David Keatley Purpose When investigating missing persons cases, witness and suspect statements are often the only available evidence to investigators. As such, forensic linguistics can be useful to police when seeking information from individuals during investigative interviews...