Arson or fire setting in offenders with intellectual disability: Clinical characteristics, forensic histories, and treatment outcomes.

BackgroundAlthough many with intellectual disability come to the attention of services for fire setting, research in this area is scarce, which poses challenges for management. MethodIn this paper we examined those with a fire-setting history (n = 30), identified from a sample of 138 patients treate...

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Published in:Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 189 - 198
Main Authors: Alexander, Regi T., Chester, Verity, Green, Fatima N., Gunaratna, Ignatius, Hoare, Sudeep
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2015
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