@article{ref1,
title="Risk factors for future offending in child and adolescent firesetters following a Fire service intervention program",
journal="Criminal justice and behavior",
year="2019",
author="Lambie, Ian and Randell, Isabel and Krynen, Ariana and Reed, Peter and Ioane, Julia",
volume="46",
number="6",
pages="832-852",
abstract="Research has established links between youth firesetting and general antisocial behavior. The current study sought to better understand these links by identifying fire-specific and general risk factors for offending from a national sample of children and adolescent firesetters (N = 1,790), from a New Zealand Fire Service intervention program, up to 10 years after intervention. Most (62%) had committed an offense post-intervention, primarily moderate or severe offending. Only 5% had committed an arson offense post-intervention. Nearly all measures of victimization, psychosocial/emotional problems, previous conduct problem behavior, and child-welfare history were associated with post-intervention offending and/or offending severity. Pre-intervention offending and being older (aged 12+ years) at intervention were the major independent risk factors for offending. A protective factor was firesetting having occurred at home. <br><br>FINDINGS highlight young firesetters' broad patterns of pervasive antisocial behavior and multiple adverse family, environmental, and individual factors that accompany and contribute to wide-ranging, non-fire-related offending.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0093-8548",
doi="10.1177/0093854819842907",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854819842907"
}