Identify and briefly describe stages leading to firesetting in children.

What will be an ideal response?


Fire interest can be a normal stage of childhood development where children younger than three set fires. Fireplay occurs between the ages of five and nine. The child experiments with how a fire starts and what it can do but won’t understand the consequences of setting the fire. Firesetting is an abnormal fascination with fire and the setting of fires despite knowing the dangers of fire. Persistent firesetting is associated with psychological problems.

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An attack on a ship operating close to shore, often an opportunist attack, by pirates in small, high-speed, seagoing craft; this defined as a ____ - ____ ____ ____ with the intent to steal cash and personal valuables from the crew and the ship's

safe. Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Many male serial killers use a combination of methods in killing their victims. This is in contrast to typical homicides, domestic or otherwise, in which what method is most likely to be used as the only method to kill their victims?

a. firearms b. poison c. bludgeoning d. mutilation e. strangulation

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Acts of nonfeasance are acts:

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