Looking for pyromania: Characteristics of a consecutive sample of Finnish male criminals with histories of recidivist fire-setting between 1973 and 1993

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Lindberg, Nina ^a   Holi, Matti M ^a   Tani, Pekka ^a   Virkkunen, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; ARSON; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; FINLAND; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOSIS; PYROMANIA; ADOLESCENT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; CRIMINOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FINLAND; FIRESETTING BEHAVIOR; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RECURRENCE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 29244475761     PISSN: 1471244X     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-5-47     Document Type: Article

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