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International and national research on the field of missing persons have increased during the past few years to address the main challenges in the field about the standardization of the Public Administration’s first response (prevention and intervention). The objectives of this research are focused on the identification of those characteristics which form the adults and minors’ missing person profiles as well as the identification of the associations between these characteristics and the missing persons’ state of health when located. A sample composed by 1,140 solved missing person cases reported in Spain during 2019 has been studied. Results showed that there are some characteristics that can distinguish between adults and minors’ missing person profiles and their outcomes (good state of health, harmed and deceased). These findings entail different implications considering the group of age of the missing person: a) at prevention level focused on the prevention of missing person cases (society) as well as harmed and fatal outcomes (risky groups), and b) in the scope of criminal investigation to promote the creation and validation of different tools for the support of the decision making process.
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