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Useful Information

Arson Prevention Bureau publications

  • Prevention and Control of Arson in Industrial and Commercial Premises (Sept.2000)

  • Arson Attacks on Farms and the Countryside: Reducing the Risks (May 1999)

  • Arson Attacks on Homes: Reducing the Risks (April 1999)

  • Arson Attacks on Homes: Research by the Arson Prevention Bureau (April 1999)

  • Car Fires: The Growing Problem and How to Help Extinguish it (Sep. 1998)

  • Malicious Car Fires: Research by the Arson Prevention Bureau (Sept.1998)

  • How to Combat Arson in Schools (July 1998)

  • Accommodating Arsonists in the Community : Guidance for Hostel Managers (July 1998)

  • School Fires: Research by the Arson Prevention Bureau (July 1998)

  • Accommodating Arsonists in the Community (July 1998)

  • Fraudulent Arson: Considerations for Insurers (February 1998)

  • Arson – The Major Threat to Places of Worship (February 1998)

  • Arson Alert for Shops and Stores (February 1998)

  • How Building Design can reduce the threat from Arson (July 1997)

  • How Building Design Can Reduce The Threat From Arson (July 1997)

Department for Education and Employment (2000),

Fire Safety (Guide 6): Managing School Facilities, London:H.M.S.O.

Available from: http://www.thestationeryoffice.com

Department for Education and Employment (1997), Dealing with Troublemakers, London:H.M.S.O.

Education (School Premises) Regulations 1999, Statutory Instrument 1999 No.2, London: HMSO

Safer Communities: Towards Effective Arson Control

(The report of the Arson Scoping Study)

Available at: http://www.wsfb.co.uk/arson.pdf

The Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997-Statutory Instrument No.1840

Available at the Stationary Office site

http://www.thestationeryoffice.co.uk

The Fire Precautions (Workplace) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 – Statutory Instrument 1877 of 1999

Available at the Stationary Office site

http://www.thestationeryoffice.co.uk

References

Barker, A.B. (1994) Arson – A review of the Psychiatric Literature, Oxford:Oxford University Press.

Fleszar-Szunigajowa, J. (1969) ‘The perpetrators of arson in forensic-psychiatric material’, Police Medical Journal, Vol. 8, pp. 212 – 219.

Inciardi, J.A. (1970). ‘The adult fire-setter: a typology’, Criminology, Vol.8, pp.145-155.

Jacobson, R.R. (1985) ‘The subclassification of child firesetters’, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, No. 26(5), pp. 769-775.

Kafry, D. (1980) ‘Playing with matches: children and fire’, In: D. Canter (Ed.), Fires and Human Behaviour, New York: Wiley and Sons.

Kammerer, T.H., Singer, L. & Michel, D. (1967), ‘Les incendiaries. Etude criminologique et psycholoqique de 72 cas’, Ann. med.-psychol., Vol. 125, pp. 687-716.

Kanner, L. (1957) Child Psychiatry, Springfield, IL: C.C.Thomas.

Kolko, D.J. & Kazdin, A.E. (1989) ‘Assessment of dimensions of childhood fire-setting among patients and non-patients: The fire-setting risk interview’, Journal of Abn. Child Psychology, No. 17, pp.157-76.

Langham, M., Hole, G., Andrews, R., Jeavons, S. & O’Hara, R. (1999), Juvenile Firesetter Intervention Schemes – A Research Project into the Situation in the UK , Report for the Arson Prevention Bureau, Unpublished.

Lewis. A (1999) The Prevention and Control of Arson, Herts: The Fire Protection Association

Molnar, G., Keitner, L. & Harwood, B.T. (1984), ‘A comparison of partner and solo arsonists’, Journal of Forensic Science, No. 29, pp.574 – 583.

Nurcombe, B. (1964) ‘Children who set fires’, Medical Journal of Australia, No.1 pp.579 – 584.

Pease, K. (1999) ‘A Review of Street Lighting Evaluations: Crime Reduction Effects’, in Crime Prevention Studies, Volume 10, pp. 47-76.

Prins, H. (1994) Fire-Raising: Its Motivation and Management, London: Routledge.

Stears, G., (1999) A Compendium of Arson In The UK: Occasional Paper No.8, A.B.I.:London.

Virkunnen, M. (1974) ‘On arson committed by schizophrenics’, Acta. Psychiat. Scand., No.50, pp.152-160.

Woodward, C.D. (1987) ‘Arson: The Major Fire Problem of the 1980’s’, Journal of the Society of Fellows, The Chartered Insurance Institute, Vol.2 (Part 1), p.56.

Yesavage, J.A., Benezech, M, Ceccaldi, P, Bourgeois, M, & Addad, M. (1983). ‘Arson in mentally ill and criminal populations’, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, No.44, pp.128-130.

 

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