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Looking for pyromania: Characteristics of a consecutive sample of Finnish male criminals with histories of recidivist fire-setting between 1973 and 1993

BACKGROUND: As pyromania is a rare diagnosis with questionable validity, we aimed to describe a forensic psychiatric population of arson recidivists. METHODS: The medical records as well as the forensic psychiatric examination statements of 90 arson recidivists referred for pretrial psychiatric asse...

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Autores principales: Lindberg, Nina, Holi, Matti M, Tani, Pekka, Virkkunen, Matti
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1325224/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16351734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-5-47