TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Retrospective study of fire setting among boys in a child welfare sample
JO  - Youth violence and juvenile justice
A1  - Brereton, Alexandra L.
A1  - Lamade, Raina V.
A1  - Lee, Austin F.
A1  - Schuler, Ann
A1  - Prentky, Robert A.
SP  - 256
EP  - 273
VL  - 18
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1541-2040
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1541204020906425
ID  - ref1
ER  -