Deliberate firesetting

Rebekah M. Doley; Bruce D. Watt

doi:10.4135/9781483365817.n385

Deliberate firesetting

Rebekah M. Doley
, Bruce D. Watt

Faculty of Society & Design

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[Extract] Pathological firesetting is the deliberate intentional misuse of fire. It does not necessarily imply a conviction for firesetting, making a distinction from the term arson, which is a legal definition for the criminal act of willfully and maliciously setting fire to property. In this entry, however, the terms are used interchangeably to encompass apprehended and undetected deliberate firesetters.

The literature on deliberate firesetting is replete with an array of terms, usually with a pejorative tone, used to describe the act; for instance, firebug, pyro(maniac), and serial arsonist. The lack of precision in the use of these terms has clouded understanding of the internal drives for deliberate firesetting.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology
Editors	Amy Wenzel
Place of Publication	Thousand Oaks
Publisher	SAGE Publications Ltd
Pages	983
Number of pages	984
ISBN (Print)	9781483365831
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483365817.n385
Publication status	Published - 2017

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