Missing Children

Resource Year Topic Type
National Incidence Study of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children in America (NISMART 1)
Funded by: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency and Prevention. U.S. Department of Justice, award 2017-MC-FX-K011. The principal goal of…
 1990, 2017 Kidnapping and Missing Children, Missing Children Project
Highlights From the NISMART Bulletins
Highlights from the NISMART Bulletins. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. (2002). Juvenile Justice Fact Sheet.
 2002 Kidnapping and Missing Children, Missing Children Fact Sheet
Children Abducted by Family Members: A National Household Survey of Incidence and Episode Characteristics
Finkelhor, D., Hotaling G.T., and Sedlak, A.J. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 53: 805-817. Order (MC3)
 1991 Kidnapping and Missing Children, Missing Children Paper
Police Involvement in Family Abduction Episodes
Plass P., Gerald T. Hotaling, and Finkelhor, D. Crime & Delinquency,41(2):205-218. Order (MC13)
 1995 Kidnapping and Missing Children, Kidnapping, Missing Children Paper
Varieties of Non-Family Abduction of Children & Adolescents
Asdigian N., Finkelhor, D., and Hotaling G.T. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 22(3):215-232. Order (MC8)
 1995 Kidnapping and Missing Children, Missing Children Paper
National Estimates of Missing Children: An Overview
Sedlak, A.J., Finkelhor, D., Hammer, H., and Schultz, D.J. Juvenile Justice Bulletin–NCJ196465,1-12. Order (MC16)
 2002 Kidnapping and Missing Children, Missing Children Paper
Runaway/Thrownaway Children: National Estimates and Characteristics
Hammer, H., Finkelhor, D., and Sedlak, A.J. Juvenile Justice Bulletin–NCJ196469, 1-12. Order (MC18)
 2002 Kidnapping and Missing Children, Missing Children Paper
National Estimates of Missing Children: Selected Trends, 1988-1999
Hammer, H., Finkelhor, D., Sedlak, A.J., and Porcellini L. Juvenile Justice Bulletin - NCJ206179, 1-8. Order (MC22) , Washington, DC
 2004 Kidnapping and Missing Children, Missing Children Paper
National Estimates of Children Missing Involuntarily or for Benign Reasons
Sedlak, A.J., Finkelhor, D., and Hammer, H. Juvenile Justice Bulletin - NCJ206180, 1-12. Order (MC20), Washington, DC
 2005 Kidnapping and Missing Children, Missing Children Paper
Caretaker satisfaction with law enforcement response to missing children
Hammer, H., Finkelhor, D., Ormrod, R., Sedlak, A.J., and Bruce, C. Juvenile Justice Bulletin - NCJ217909 (pgs. 1-8). Washington, DC: US Government…
 2008 Kidnapping and Missing Children, Missing Children Paper