Missing Persons and Runaway Youth: The Role of Social Media as an Alert System and Crime Control Tool

Missing persons cases have a unique relationship with the media, where increased exposure is said to be a key factor in the recovery of victims and closure of cases. In an attempt to increase exposure for certain types of missing persons cases, news media

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Bryanna Fox Joan A. Reid Anthony J. Masys   Editors

Science Informed Policing

Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications Series Editor Anthony J. Masys, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA Advisory Editors Gisela Bichler, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA Thirimachos Bourlai, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Panagiotis Karampelas, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Attica, Greece Christian Leuprecht, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON, Canada Edward C. Morse, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA David Skillicorn, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada Yoshiki Yamagata, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki,  Japan

Indexed by SCOPUS The series Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications comprises interdisciplinary research covering the theory, foundations and domain-specific topics pertaining to security. Publications within the series are peer-reviewed monographs and edited works in the areas of: –– biological and chemical threat recognition and detection (e.g., biosensors, aerosols, forensics) –– crisis and disaster management –– terrorism –– cyber security and secure information systems (e.g., encryption, optical and photonic systems) –– traditional and non-traditional security –– energy, food and resource security –– economic security and securitization (including associated infrastructures) –– transnational crime –– human security and health security –– social, political and psychological aspects of security –– recognition and identification (e.g., optical imaging, biometrics, authentication and verification) –– smart surveillance systems –– applications of theoretical frameworks and methodologies (e.g., grounded theory, complexity, network sciences, modelling and simulation) Together, the high-quality contributions to this series provide a cross-disciplinary overview of forefront research endeavours aiming to make the world a safer place. The editors encourage prospective authors to correspond with them in advance of submitting a manuscript. Submission of manuscripts should be made to the Editor-­in-­Chief or one of the Editors. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/5540

Bryanna Fox  •  Joan A. Reid  •  Anthony J. Masys Editors

Science Informed Policing

Editors Bryanna Fox Department of Criminology University of South Florida Tampa, FL, USA

Joan A. Reid Department of Criminology University of South Florida-St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, FL, USA

Anthony J. Masys College of Public Health University of South Florida Tampa, FL, USA

ISSN 1613-5113     ISSN 2363-9466 (electronic) Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications ISBN 978-3-030-41286-9    ISBN 978-3-030-41287-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41287-6 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specificall