Abstract
Two 13-year-old boys have been arrested for investigation of malicious arson in connection with setting 67 fires in the San Fernando Valley over the last six months. Los Angeles County Fire Department investigators say one youth confessed to touching off 38 blazes and the other to 29. The boys, who were not identified because of their age, are being held in juvenile placement homes while awaiting trial. According to authorities, they belonged to a “Pyro Club” which operated out of their junior high school.1
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Notes
Joy Horowitz, “Firesetting Youths—Why They Do It,” Los Angeles Times (18 September 1979), Section V, p. 1.
“Gains Made in War on Arson?” Los Angeles Times (28 October 1979), B, p. 1.
“Mexican National Booked in LA Fire That Killed 24,” Sacramento Bee (24 December 1982), Section A, p. 5.
Tina May, “Arsonists Aren’t Wild-Eyed Crooks,” The Sun (23 September 1979), Section B, p. 1.
Ibid.
“Arson: How to Defend against the Most Destructive School Crime,” School Security 1 (December 1976), 1–8.
Ibid.
W. J. Moretz, “Psychology’s Understanding of Arson: What Do We Know, and What Do We Need to Know?” Fire and Arson Investigator 28(1) (1977), 45–52.
San Bernardino County, Criminal Justice Profile, 1981, State of California, Bureau of Criminal Statistics, Sacramento, California.
Horowitz, p. 1.
John S. Barracato, Fire... Is It Arson? Aetna Life & Casualty, 1979, pp. 3–10.
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Wooden, W.S., Berkey, M.L. (1984). “Delinquent” Firesetters. In: Children and Arson. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9403-1_6
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