Citation

Hotaling GT, Finkelhor SD. J. Crim. Justice 1990; 18(5): 385-399.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0047-2352(90)90055-G

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article attempts to derive estimates of the incidence of stranger-abduction homicide of children from six existing data sources. Also presented are the results of a separate analysis of abduction-related statistics on children contained in the Comprehensive Homicide File for the nine-year period 1976-1984. Methodological problems in existing data sources are identified, and results are discussed in relation to the issue of missing children.