Examining what factors affect inter-agency working in missing children investigations

IF 1.3 3区社会学 Q3 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Policing-A Journal of Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1093/police/paad044

S. Waring, Paige Monaghan, Amy D. Yates, Nikola Girgiel, S. Giles, Freya O’Brien

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Abstract

Despite responsibility for missing children belonging to multiple agencies, police perceive this to be falling heavily on their shoulders, placing substantial demand on finite resources. Drawing on thematic analysis of 24 interviews conducted with police, local authority, social service, and care home staff from across three UK boroughs, the following study seeks to identify what factors facilitate and hinder inter-agency working in the prevention and response to missing children and why. Findings highlight that inter-agency working is facilitated by having ‘direct points of contact’ across agencies to facilitate information sharing. Inter-agency working is hindered by ‘inconsistent definitions of missing’, limited ‘understanding of roles and responsibilities’, ‘service demand’, ‘technological issues’, ‘fear’, and ‘discrepancies in responses to missing’. Evidence suggests that partnership working would be facilitated by improving shared understanding of missing, roles and responsibilities, and having direct points of contact across agencies.

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审查哪些因素影响失踪儿童调查机构间工作

尽管失踪儿童的责任属于多个机构，但警方认为这是他们的沉重负担，对有限的资源提出了大量需求。以下研究对英国三个行政区的警察、地方当局、社会服务和养老院工作人员进行了24次访谈，并进行了主题分析，旨在确定哪些因素促进和阻碍了机构间预防和应对失踪儿童的工作，以及原因。调查结果强调，通过在各机构之间建立“直接联系点”来促进信息共享，从而促进了机构间工作。机构间工作受到“失踪定义不一致”、“对角色和责任的理解有限”、“服务需求”、“技术问题”、“恐惧”和“对失踪的反应不一致”的阻碍。有证据表明，通过增进对失踪、角色和责任的共同理解，以及在各机构之间建立直接联系点，将有助于伙伴关系的工作。

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Policing-A Journal of Policy and Practice CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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