Lorna Ferguson

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice: https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paac006.

Sociology Publications: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/sociologypub/53.

Sociology Publications: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/sociologypub/55/.

Huey, L. & Ferguson, L. (2022). Building empowerment: The Canadian approach to evidence-based policing. In E. Piza and B. Welsh (eds.), The Globalization of Evidence-Based Policing: Innovations in Bridging the Research-Practice Divide (pp. 122-135). Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge.

British Columbia and Ontario are two of the Canadian provinces and territories that have enacted a Missing Persons Act, legislation aimed at improving the police investigation of missing person cases. Understanding the Acts in these regions from the policing perspective ...

This study applied the Threat Appraisal and Coping Theory to explore the mechanisms influencing a person to go missing. We examined the negative emotions and stressors – proximate stressors/stressful events, underlying life stressors, emotional states, and other dysfunctional ...

Youths going missing continues to be a matter of great concern for the police. This group has been consistently found to comprise most police missing person reports, be more likely to go repeatedly missing, and experience victimization and vulnerability related to these ...