Profiling arsonists and their motives: An update

Fire Engineering

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 80-88

  White, Ellen Emerson ^a  

^a JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

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