@article{ref1,
title="Retrospective study of fire setting among boys in a child welfare sample",
journal="Youth violence and juvenile justice",
year="2020",
author="Brereton, Alexandra L. and Lamade, Raina V. and Lee, Austin F. and Schuler, Ann and Prentky, Robert A.",
volume="18",
number="3",
pages="256-273",
abstract="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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1541-2040",
doi="10.1177/1541204020906425",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1541204020906425"
}