RT Article
T1 Predicting the recidivism of mentally disordered firesetters
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 11
IS 3
SP 364
OP 375
A1 Rice, M. E.
A2 Harris, G. T.
LA English
YR 1996
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/163931220X
AB The psychiatric literature has asserted that arsonists are a particularly dangerous group of mentally disordered offenders with a high likelihood of setting further fires, yet the scant empirical data do not support that contention. We examined the postrelease firesetting, violent, and nonviolent recidivism of 208 male firesetters who had been admitted to a maximum security psychiatric hospital. In an average period of 7.8 years at risk, 16% set another fire, 31% committed a violent offense, 57% committed a nonviolent offense, and 66% exhibited some form of recidivism. In general, personal characteristics that predicted firesetting recidivism were quite different from those that predicted nonviolent outcome and very different from those that predicted violent recidivism
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