TY - JOUR
T1 - Applying the criminal narrative experience framework to missing children
AU - Hunt, Daniel
PY - 2020/11/6
Y1 - 2020/11/6
N2 - Over 320,000 missing persons are estimated to go missing annually in United Kingdom due to a variety of intentional and unintentional factors. This article aims to investigate whether the criminal narrative experience framework can be applied to missing persons to acquire a deeper insight into the psychological differences between missing children. Sixty‐one previously missing persons completed a missing experience survey, narrative roles questionnaire, and emotions questionnaire. Data were content analysed and subjected to a non‐metric, multi‐dimensional scaling procedure in the form of smallest space analysis. The results identified four distinct behavioural themes as follows: depressed throwaway victim, distressed pushaway revenger, calm runaway professional and elated fallaway hero. Following a stringent criterion, 88.50% of the sample could be differentiated into one dominant behavioural theme with the remaining 11.50% identified as a hybrid theme. Due to the exploratory nature of the study, additional exploration of the applicability of the framework is required.
AB - Over 320,000 missing persons are estimated to go missing annually in United Kingdom due to a variety of intentional and unintentional factors. This article aims to investigate whether the criminal narrative experience framework can be applied to missing persons to acquire a deeper insight into the psychological differences between missing children. Sixty‐one previously missing persons completed a missing experience survey, narrative roles questionnaire, and emotions questionnaire. Data were content analysed and subjected to a non‐metric, multi‐dimensional scaling procedure in the form of smallest space analysis. The results identified four distinct behavioural themes as follows: depressed throwaway victim, distressed pushaway revenger, calm runaway professional and elated fallaway hero. Following a stringent criterion, 88.50% of the sample could be differentiated into one dominant behavioural theme with the remaining 11.50% identified as a hybrid theme. Due to the exploratory nature of the study, additional exploration of the applicability of the framework is required.
KW - Criminal narratives
KW - Missing children
KW - Missing children narrative experience framework
KW - Missing persons
KW - Narrative experience
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096654037&doi=10.1002%2fjip.1567&partnerID=40&md5=a9b7c6f635aaaeca0e9eea71a6ac85ab
U2 - 10.1002/jip.1567
DO - 10.1002/jip.1567
M3 - Article
JO - Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling
JF - Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling
SN - 1544-4759
ER -