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civil and criminal. This conceptual review provides a brief history from the standpoint of a practitioner who has witnessed and sometimes precipitated the changes that have taken place since 1974.
A married couple and 4 co-conspirators were arrested and convicted with arson and insurance fraud after a string of home, business, and warehouse fires which took place between 2014 and 2018 were exposed as acts of arson.
1 maj 2011 · Arson, or intentional fire-setting, has a long and ignominious history. It is well-established in the criminal codes of most nations, in part because it is a significant cause of fire worldwide, including deaths and injuries (see Home Office, 2002, United States Fire Administration, 2001).
fire investigation reviews to assist a competent fire investigator conduct a thorough, rigorous and systematic investigation to determine the origin and cause of a fire. It
Fire investigation is a complex endeavor that requires practitioners to make numerous sophisticated decisions involving chemistry and physics. It would be wonderful if all fire investigators were up to the task, but society has elected not to reward fire investigators for obtaining the fundamental knowledge required to do their jobs. Sala-
Although some texts continued to present pyromania as a species of impulsive ‘insanity, with an irresistible desire to destroy by fire’ (e.g. Cleaveland, 1872: 202; Fowler, 1875: 420), 3 by the 1880s and 1890s medical lexicons were registering pyromania’s claim for special status as just a ‘claim’, according it cursory treatment and ...
6 mar 2020 · Grenfell was the worst residential fire in UK peacetime history, with 72 people losing their lives. We now know what happened - the report on phase one of the public inquiry has been published -...
