RT Article
T1 Copycat firesetting: bridging two research areas
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 40
IS 12
SP 1472
OP 1491
A1 Doley, Rebekah
A2 Ferguson, Claire
A2 Surette, Ray
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1885617712
AB Deliberate firesetting costs our community in destruction to property and lives. Public concern heightens when similar fires occur in a series, raising the specter of copycat firesetting. Difficulties associated with researching copycat crimes in general mean that not a lot is known about copycat firesetting. As an initial step toward filling this research gap, we explore connections between research on copycat crime and research into deliberate firesetting. The intention is to extract salient features from what is known about the phenomena of deliberate firesetting and copycat crime, map them together, and point out shared and unique characteristics. It is argued that a ?copycat firesetter? is likely to exist as a distinct subgroup and potentially requiring targeted interventions.
K1 Arson
K1 copycat
K1 Firesetting
DO 10.1177/0093854813496997