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Identification And Identification For Children

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Most research has been done in the area of facial recognition and not in identification matching. Photo identification is used in a variety of situations. A single picture is used for travel with passports or in the case of photo alerts for missing children. Passports in Canada for children under sixteen are limited to a maximum five-year renewal period, differing from an adult passport that can have up to ten years maximum (Government of Canada, n.d.). The five-year maximum renewal time may seem short when compared to adults, however, it may be too long in the case of a growing child. This five-year renewal period means that passports of infants (those 12 months or younger) can be used to identify children up to six years old. It is important to establish how long is too long for realistic identification by examining the factors that could hinder or aid identification for children.
In 2015, there were “45,288” missing children reported in Canada (Government of Canada, 2015). According to the FBI, the United States had over 460,000 reported missing children in 2015 (NCMEC, n.d.). These are just the reported cases of missing children, some children may not be reported as missing. In 2015, the Government of Canada reported that nineteen children were victims of human trafficking, over one hundred were parental abductions, almost thirty-five thousand runaways and twenty-four were taken by strangers. These children can be found outside of Canada. One-third of missing Canadian

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