Retrospective Study of Fire Setting Among Boys in a Child Welfare Sample
| Autor: | Austin F. Lee, Robert A. Prentky, Ann Schuler, Alexandra Brereton, Raina V. Lamade |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. 18:256-273 |
| ISSN: | 1556-9330 1541-2040 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1541204020906425 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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