IFIRE Recommended Readings and Research
IFIRE Recommended Readings and Resources
IFIRE works to reduce harms caused by reckless and intentional misuse of fire, through prevention and intervention strategies. Recommended resources are included below.
Readings
Sambrooks, K., Olver, M. E., Page, T. E., & Gannon, T. A. (2021). Firesetting reoffending: A meta-analysis. Criminal Justice and Behavior. Advanced online publication. doi:10.1177/00938548211013577
Tyler, N., Gannon, T. A., Ó Ciardha, C., Ogloff, J. R. P., & Stadolnik, R. (2019). Deliberate firesetting: An international public health issue. The Lancet Public Health, 4(8), e371-e372. doi:10.1016/S2468-2667(19)30136-7
Wyatt, B., Gannon, T. A., & McEwan, T., & Lockerbie, L. (2019). Mentally disordered firesetters: An examination of risk factors. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 82(1), 27-41. doi:10.1080/00332747.2018.1534520
Tyler, N., Gannon, T. A., Lockerbie, L., & Ó Ciardha, C. (2018). An evaluation of a specialist firesetting treatment program for male and female mentally disordered offenders. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 25(3), 388-400. doi:10.1002/cpp.2172
Gannon, T. A., Alleyne, E., Butler, H., Danby, H., Kapoor, A., Lovell, T. … & Ó Ciardha, C. (2015). Specialist group therapy for psychological factors associated with firesetting: Evidence of a treatment effect from a non-randomised trial with prisoners. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 73(1), 42-51. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2015.07.007
Ó Ciardha, C., Tyler, N., & Gannon, T. A. (2015). A practical guide to assessing adult firesetters’ fire-specific treatment needs using the four factor fire scales. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 78(4), 293-304. doi:10.1080/00332747.2015.1061310
Tyler, N., Gannon, T. A., Lockerbie, L., King, T., Dickens, G. L., & De Burca, C. (2014). A firesetting offense chain for mentally disordered offenders (FOC-MD). Criminal Justice and Behavior, 41(4), 512-530. doi:10.1177/0093854813510911
Barnoux, M. L., Gannon, T. A., & Ó Ciardha, C. (2015). A descriptive model of the offence chain for imprisoned adult male firesetters (descriptive model of adult male firesetting, DMAF). Legal and Criminological Psychology, 20(1), 48-67. doi:10.1111/lcrp.12071
Resources
- The Firesetting and Forensic Mental Health Lab, based in the School of Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, operates under the leadership of Dr Nichola Tyler.
- The Firesetting Intervention Programme for Mentally Disordered Offenders (FIP-MO), developed as part of a joint project by the Centre of Research and Education in Forensic Psychology (University of Kent) and Kent Forensic Psychiatry Service (Kent and Medway NHS Social Care Partnership Trust) and underpinned by the Multi-Trajectory Theory of Adult Firesetting, is the first standardized intervention for individuals with a mental/personality disorder who deliberately set fires.
- SOS FIRES: Youth Intervention Programs