Offending behaviours of child and adolescent firesetters over a 10-year follow-up

Lambie, Ian

Offending behaviours of child and adolescent firesetters over a 10-year follow-up Ian Lambie, Julia Ioane, Isabel Randell and Fred Seymour - Wiley & Sons, 2013 - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry .

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013, 54(12): 1295–1307


This research assesses the postintervention arson recidivism and other offending rates of a group of 182 firesetting children and adolescents referred to the New Zealand Fire Awareness and Intervention Program (FAIP) over a followup period of 10 years. It investigates predictors of offending behaviour as well as variables associated with previous involvement in firesetting behaviour and offending severity. involvement with family violence (as a perpetrator, complainant or victim) was associated with more severe offending behaviour. (from the abstract) Record #4205


New Zealand Fire Service.


ADOLESCENTS
CHILDREN
CRIME PREVENTION
INTERVENTION
OFFENDERS
PERPETRATORS
RECIDIVISM
RISK FACTORS
YOUNG PEOPLE
CRIME
FAMILY VIOLENCE


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