RT Article
T1 Retrospective study of fire setting among boys in a child welfare sample
JF Youth violence and juvenile justice
VO 18
IS 3
SP 256
OP 273
A1 Brereton, Alexandra L.
A2 Lamade, Raina V.
A2 Lee, Austin F.
A2 Schuler, Ann
A2 Prentky, Robert A.
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1816505382
AB This study aimed to assess fire-setting behaviors within a child welfare sample. The youth were divided into four groups based on their fire-setting behavior (e.g., no incidents, one incident, multiple minor incidents, and multiple severe incidents). Groups were compared based on five factors: overt antisocial behavior, covert antisocial behavior, global adjustment, psychiatric history, and learning deficits. Fire setters displayed more delinquent behavior and had more extensive psychiatric histories than non-fire- setting youth. Further, the youth with multiple serious incidents of fire-setting behavior displayed more delinquent behavior and had more extensive psychiatric histories than any of the fire-setting groups. These findings clearly suggest that fire setters, as a group, are not homogeneous with respect to antisocial behavior or psychiatric impairment and that gravity of fire setting increased as a function of greater psychopathology and greater delinquency when compared to their peers.
NO First published 28 February, 2020
K1 fire setting
K1 Juveniles
K1 Psychopathology
K1 antisocial behaviors
DO 10.1177/1541204020906425