Many years of missing people as a result of criminal activities Cover Image

Wieloletnie zaginięcia osób jako efekt działań przestępczych
Many years of missing people as a result of criminal activities

Author(s): Aneta Urbaniak
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Kryminologiczne im. prof. Stanisława Batawii
Keywords: disappearance; missing person; crime; social exclusion; home abuse;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the phenomenon of missing persons, which due to its multidimensional character, can also be considered by the criminogical connections. This article is focused on the potencial of long-term disappearances in estimating the dark figure of crimes, including offences made directly on the missing persons, and offences that has become the impulse for deciding to disappear. It shows an important conclusions from Australian, British and Canadian studies on the causes of disappearances, victimization of missing persons and escaping violence, abuse and neglect by youth. It also point out simulated disappearances, which in fact are may be criminal.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 57-72
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish