Research Papers and Academic Articles

Reports

Report from the 2012 National Forum for the Prevention of Bushfire Arson

Publications

Dolan, M., McEwan, T., Doley, R. & Fritzon, K. (2011).Risk factors and risk assessment in juvenile firesetting. Psychology, Psychiatry and Law, 18(3), 378-394.DOI:10.1080/13218719.2011.559154

Doley, R. (2009). Arsonists in our midst. Security Solutions, 58, 56-66

Doley, R. (2007). The evolution of child fire involvement. California Fire/Arson Investigator. USA: International Association of Arson Investigators.

Doley, R. (June 2006). Childhood fire play to adult arson: is there a progression? Firepoint, 66, 14-16)

Doley, R. (2003). Making sense of arson through classification. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 10(2), 346-352. DOI: 10.1375/pplt.2003.10.2.346     

Doley, R. (2003). Pyromania. Fact or fiction? British Journal of Criminology, 43(4), 797-807. DOI: 10.1093/bjc/43.4.797

Doley, R. (2009). A snapshot of serial arson in Australia. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing. Pp. 165.

Doley, R., Fineman, K., Fritzon, K., Dolan, M. & McEwan, T. (2011). Risk factors for recidivistic arson in adult arson offenders. Psychology, Psychiatry and Law, 18(3), 409-423. DOI:10.1080/13218719.2011.559155

Doley, R., & Fineman, K. (2012). Firefighter arson. In G. Dickens, P. Sugarman, & T. Gannon (eds.), Arson and mental health: Theory, research and practice. RCPsych Pubs.

Doley, R & Fritzon, K. (2008). Assessment and treatment of fire-setting behaviour. In K. Fritzon and P. Wilson (eds.), Forensic Psychology and Criminology: An Australasian perspective. Melbourne: McGraw-Hill.

Doley, R., & Watt, B. (2012). Assessment of firesetters. In G. Dickens, P. Sugarman, & T. Gannon (eds.), Arson and mental health: Theory, research and practice. RCPsych Pubs.

Fritzon, K. (2012). Theories on arson and mental disorder: The action systems model. In G. Dickens, P. Sugarman, & T. Gannon’s (Eds.) Arson and mental health: Theory, research and practice. RCPsych Pubs.

Fritzon, K. (2010). Arson. In J. Brown & E. Campbell’s (Eds.) The Cambridge handbook of forensic psychology. London, UK: Cambridge University Press

Fritzon, K. (2001). An examination of the relationship between distance travelled and motivational aspects of firesetting behaviour. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 21, 45-60.

Fritzon, K., Canter, D., & Wilton, Z. (2001) The application of an action systems model to destructive behaviour: The examples of Arson and Terrorism. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 19, 657-690

Fritzon, K., Dolan, M., Doley, R., & McEwan, T. (2011).Juvenile fire-setting: A review of treatment programs. Psychology, Psychiatry and Law, 18(3), 395-408.

Fritzon, K., Lewis, H., & Doley, R. (2011). Looking at the characteristics of adult arsonists from a narrative perspective. Psychology, Psychiatry and Law, 18(3), 424-438.DOI:10.1080/13218719.2011.585255

Hollows, K., & Fritzon, K. (2012) ‘Ordinary Men’ or ‘Evil Monsters’?: An Action Systems Model of Genocidal Actions and Characteristics of Perpetrators. Law and Human Behavior 36(5), 458-467

McEwan, T., Doley, R., & Dolan, M. (2012). Bushfires and wildfires: Arson risk assessment in the Australian context. In G. Dickens, P. Sugarman, & T. Gannon (eds.), Arson and mental health: Theory, research and practice. RCPsych Pubs. 

Miller, S. and Fritzon, K. (2007) Functional consistency across two behavioural modalities: firesetting and self harm in female special hospital patients Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 17, 31-44.

Neville, L., Miller, S. and Fritzon, K. (2007) Understanding change in a therapeutic community: An action systems approach. Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 18 (2) 181-203.

Santtila, P, Tamelander, A-L and Fritzon, K. (2004) Linking arson incidents on the basis of crime scene behaviour. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 19 (1) 1-16.

Santtila, P., Häkkänen, H. and Fritzon, K. (2003) Inferring the characteristics of an arsonist from crime scene behaviour: a case study in offender profiling. International Journal of Police Science and Management., 5(1) 1-15. 

Publications in press

Brooks, N., & Fritzon, K., (submitted) Mentally disordered homicide offenders.

Cannon, A., Doley, R., Ferguson, C., & Brooks, N. (in press) Antisocial Personality Disorder and Therapeutic Justice Programs, Journal of Justice Administration.

Doley, R., Fritzon, K., & Clark, F. (in press) What Works in Reducing Arson-Related Offending. In L., Craig, L., Dixon, & T., Gannon (eds). What Works in Offender Rehabilitation: An Evidence Based Approach to Assessment and Treatment”.

Fritzon, K., Davey, L., & Doley, R. (submitted) The development of a firesetter treatment program: Operationalizing the multi-trajectory theory of adult firesetting.

Fritzon, K. (in press). Systemic models of criminal differentiation. In D. Canter and D. E. Young’s (Eds.). Festschrift in Honour of Professor David Canter. Volume 1: Behavioural Analysis of Crime. Ashgate

Fritzon, K., & Doley, R. (submitted) From theory to practice: an empirical validation of the Multi-Trajectory theory of adult fire-setting.

Fritzon, K., Doley, R., & Bell, R. (in press). Profiling Arson. In M. Davis, Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Fritzon, K., Doley, R., & Hollows, K. (submitted). Variations in the Offence Actions and Offender Characteristics of Deliberate Firesetters: A Cross-National Analysis.