The National Juvenile Firesetter/Arson Control and Prevention Program
Begun in early 1988. the National Juvenile Firesetter/Arson Control and Prevention Program was initiated to assess and develop promising approaches to help communities deal with juvenile firesetting and arson. Funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the U.S. Fire Administration, this two-and-a-half year study is being conducted by the Institute for Social Analysis (ISA) and the Police Executive Research Forum. Its primary objective is to make available to local jurisdictions information that will help them implement effective juvenile firesetting programs. “These materials were written primarily for the fire service and especially for departments that cannot afford to bring in professionals,” explains Rebekah Hersch, senior research associate at the Institute for Social Analysis and director of the project. The training can be done in house, she adds.
Divided into four phases, the first three stages of the program, which have been completed, involved assessing the juvenile firesetting/arson problem and selected juvenile firesetter programs throughout the nation, documenting the model approaches with regard to their effectiveness for controlling the problem, and developing training and technical-assistance packages to help local jurisdictions implement programs.
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