• ISBN13: 9781551309309
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Canadian Scholars' Press
• Publisher Imprint: Canadian Scholars' Press
• Publication Date: January 1, 2016
• Pages: 368
• Original Price: USD 70.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 586 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / General

Uniting the voices of twenty-two experts from academic, government, and civil sectors who study and help search for missing persons in Canada and internationally, Derek Congram's new collection responds to growing public awareness of persons who have disappeared due to armed conflict, repressive regimes, criminal behaviour, and racist and colonial policies towards Indigenous persons and minority populations.

Missing Persons centres its attention on the people who seek others, and explores how scientists, law-enforcement agents, and researchers serve and relate to those who miss. This multidisciplinary volume both attends to the varied circumstances of disappearance and illustrates how disparate contexts connect, making for a valuable comparative resource in criminology and forensic anthropology, science, and psychology classrooms.

Congram, Derek: - Derek Congram is a Research Associate and Lecturer at the University of Toronto and an independent forensic consultant. As an anthropologist and archaeologist, he has worked in 20 countries for families of missing persons, universities, governments, and international organizations, including the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and the International Committee of the Red Cross. His teaching, research, and consulting focus on disappeared persons-victims of physical and structural violence.