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A 10-year-old boy who said he was angry at being spanked by his mother has admitted starting a fire at an apartment building that caused an estimated $85,000 in damages, police said.
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Newspaper accounts of actual fire incidents are interspersed throughout this book in edited form. In all instances, identifying characteristics, such as names and locations, have been altered. The exact citation, however, is given. Los Angeles Times (10 October 1983), Part II, p. 6.
Uniform Crime Report for the United States (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1982).
Ibid.
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Wooden, W.S., Berkey, M.L. (1984). Introduction to the Problem. In: Children and Arson. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9403-1_1
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