纵火、放火、纵火癖和法医心理健康专家。
Firesetting, arson, pyromania, and the forensic mental health expert.
机构信息
University of California, San Francisco, Psychiatry and the Law Program, 401 Parnassus Avenue, Campus Box 0984-PLP, San Francisco, CA 94143-0984, USA.
出版信息
J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2012;40(3):355-65.
Firesetting is a common behavior that is frequently encountered by forensic mental health experts when consulting on criminal and civil legal cases. Despite its prevalence, minimal attention has been paid in the literature to conducting firesetting-related forensic evaluations. In this article, we discuss the differences in the behavior of firesetting, the crime of arson, and the diagnosis of pyromania. The literature on adult firesetter characteristics, classification systems, recidivism, and treatment is reviewed. Several types of common criminal and civil firesetting-related evaluations referred to forensic mental health experts are discussed, along with case examples illustrating how the courts have approached such assessments. To our knowledge, this article is the first in 20 years to address firesetting-related forensic evaluations within the psychiatry literature. It also represents the first comprehensive discussion of civil evaluations related to firesetting.
纵火是法医心理健康专家在处理刑事和民事法律案件时经常遇到的一种常见行为。尽管这种行为很普遍，但文献中很少关注与纵火相关的法医评估。本文讨论了纵火行为、纵火罪和纵火癖诊断之间的区别。本文回顾了成人纵火者特征、分类系统、累犯和治疗方面的文献。讨论了几种常见的与刑事和民事纵火相关的评估，以及法医心理健康专家收到的案例示例，说明了法院如何处理这些评估。据我们所知，这是 20 年来精神病学文献中首次涉及与纵火相关的法医评估。它也是首次全面讨论与纵火有关的民事评估。
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