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Involving citizens in urgent missing person cases. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour within District Criminal Investigations Teams

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Pages 1096-1113 | Received 24 Aug 2022, Accepted 11 Jul 2023, Published online: 19 Jul 2023

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