Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 9 , Pages 1077-1084 , September 2006

Fire Interest and Antisociality as Risk Factors in the Severity and Persistence of Juvenile Firesetting

,Accepted 21 February 2006.

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 This study was supported by grants from the Ontario Fire Marshal's Office, the Fire Marshal's Public Fire Safety Council, and the Toronto Fire Services. The authors thank Dr. Mark Hanson and Susan Dickens for their help with TAPP-C.Information about TAPP-C assessment instruments can be obtained at www.tappc.net.

PII: S0890-8567(09)61782-2

doi: 10.1097/01.chi.0000227881.50404.ca

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 45, Issue 9 , Pages 1077-1084 , September 2006

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