Arson: A growing inferno

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 295-300

  Jayaraman, Anand ^a   Frazer, John ^b,c,d  

^a St Anne's Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b Leeds Mental Health Trust   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d Grange Consulting Rooms   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845191583     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmmsl.46.4.295     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. Bradford J.M.W. (1982). Arson: a clinical study. Can. J. Psychiatry 27, 188-93.
2. Barnett W., Richer P., Sigmund D. and Spitzer M. (1997). Recidivism and concomitant criminality in pathological fire setters. J. Forensic. Psychiatr. 42, 879-83.
3. Canter D. and Almond L. (2002). The Burning Issue: Research and Strategies for Reducing Arson. London, ODPM.
4. Crown Prosecution Service (1994). The Code for Crown Prosecutors. London, HMSO.
5. Dodd T., Nicholas S., Povey D. and Walker A. (2004). Crime in England and Wales 2003/04. Home Office Statistical Bulletin.
6. Fire and Rescue National Framework (2005). Creating Sustainable Communities. Crown copyright. London, ODPM.
7. Gelder M.G., López-Ibor Jr J.J. and Andreasen, N. (eds) (2000). New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
8. Home Office (1999). Safer Communities: Towards Effective Arson Control. The Report of the Arson Scoping Study. London, ODPM.
9. Home Office (2001). Cautions, Court Proceedings and Sentencing. England and Wales 2000. Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate. London.
10. Home Office (2002). Information relating to offences and prosecution under the 1971 Criminal Damage Act supplied by the Home Office.
11. Home Office (2003). Fire Statistics UK 2001. London, ODPM.
12. Jacobson R.R. (1985). The sub classification of child firesetters. J. Child Psychol. Psychiatry 26, 769-75.
13. Kazdin E. (1995) Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence (2nd ed). Beverley Hills, Sage.
14. Lewis N.D.C. and Yarnell H. (1951). Pathological Fire Setting (Pyromania). Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph 82. New York, Coolidge Foundation.
15. Molnar G., Keitner L. and Harwood B.T. (1984). A comparison of solo and partner arsonists. J. Forensic Psychiatr. 29, 574-83.
16. O'Sullivan G.H. and Kelleher M.J. (1987). A study of fire setters in the south west of Ireland. Br. J. Psychiatry 151, 181-3.
17. Palmer E.J., Caulfield L.S. and Hollin C.R. (2005). Evaluation of Interventions with Arsonists and Young Firesetters. London, ODPM.
18. Prins H., Tennent G. and Trick K. (1985). Motives for arson (fire raising). Med. Sci. Law 25 (3), 273-6.
19. Prins H. (1994) Fire-Raising: Its Motivation and Management. London, Routledge.
20. Puri B.K. and Cordess C.C. (1995). Characteristics of fire setters. Br. J. Psychiatry 166, 393-6.
21. Rasanen P., Hakko H. and Vaisanen E. (1995). The mental state of arsonists as determined by forensic psychiatric examination. Bull. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 23, 547-53.
22. Repo E. and Virkkunen M. (1997). Outcomes in a sample of Finnish fire setters. J. Forensic Psychiatry 8, 127-37.
23. Ritchie E.C. and Huff T.G. (1999). Psychiatric aspects of arsonists J. Forensic Psychiatry 44, 733-40.
24. Rix K.J. (1994). A psychiatric study of adult arsonists. Med Sci Law 34 (1), 21-34.
25. Soothill K.L. and Pope P.J. (1973). Arson: A twenty-year cohort study. Med. Sci. Law 13 (2), 127-38.
26. World Health Organisation (1992) The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders: Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines. Geneva, WHO.