Repetitive deliberate fires: development and validation of a methodology to detect series

Deliberate fires are known to be one of the most difficult offenses to understand, detect and solve [1 –3]. In a previous paper [4], we identified and described how three major challenges impact negatively on the resolution of deliberate fires. These were, the lack of definitional consensus around the notions of ‘deliberate fire’ and ‘perpetrator’, the concealment of relevant events within legitimate cases, and the dispersion of investigatory data across disparate multi-agency systems.

Source: Forensic Science International - June 16, 2017 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Eva Bruenisholz, Olivier Del émont, Olivier Ribaux, Linzi Wilson-Wilde Source Type: research