Class
- Senior
Focuses
- Anthropology
- Sustainability
Project
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Exploring Race, Sex, Age, and Geographic Location Discrepancies
in Missing Persons Reports: The Northern New England Perspective
Overview
In Exploring Race, Sex, Age, and Geographic Location Discrepancies in Missing Persons Reports: The Northern New England Perspective, Kyana Burgess focuses on the current data consistency and integrity of the forensic databases of northern New England, and identifies how contributing factors to their cases can impact how they are portrayed in media sources. Whether looking for a missing family member, searching for a potential match for a set of unidentified remains, or determining statistics of missing people, the inconsistencies across these databases often prove frustrating and cumbersome. Utilizing federal, state, and citizen-run databases to inform her research, her project serves to gain a better understanding of who goes missing in northern New England by exploring demographic variables, identifying the resulting consequences of these inconsistencies; and proposing potential steps to improve the resources utilized in solving missing person cases.
