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.
A1 Lamade, Raina V.
A1 Lee, Austin F.
A1 Schuler, Ann
A1 Prentky, Robert A.
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