Going Missing: Young People Absent from Care

by Jim Wade, Karil Wade, Nina Biehal, et al.

Going Missing presents important findings from the first major study of young people who go missing from residential and foster homes. By exploring the diverse reasons why young people go missing and what happens when they do, the authors highlight the impact both of individual motivations and of residential and foster care contexts on the patterns associated with going missing. The authors address the serious risks that young people may encounter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471984760
• ISBN13: 9780471984764
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"