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Bill Jones, a 14-year-old youth who lived with his mother and her alcoholic boyfriend, now has become a ward of the courts. Currently serving a one-year sentence for bringing a gun to school, Bill had been on probation for setting a Molotov cocktail through a kitchen window.
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Joy Horowitz, “Firesetting Youths—Why They Do It,” Los Angeles Times (18 September 1979), Part V, p. 1.
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Stanton E. Samenow, “Is It Always the Parents’ Fault?” Family Weekly (15 January 1984), p. 6.
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Wooden, W.S., Berkey, M.L. (1984). “Severely Disturbed” Firesetters. In: Children and Arson. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9403-1_7
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