Presentations:

I am experienced in developing training and education workshops (including distance education) on topics relevant to the psychology of arson for private and public organisations. I am a frequent keynote speaker at conferences, and provide guest lectures at universities as well as training programmes for academic and industry staff. Relevant topics include:

  • Inside the mind of an arsonist
  • The secret life of an arsonist
  • Motives for deliberate fire-setting
  • Serial arson: do they burn out?
  • Child fire play to adult arson: is there a progression?
  • Myths about arsonists
  • Criminal behaviour analysis and profiling
  • Investigative psychology
  • The threat from within: firefighter arson
  • Screening for arson propensity
  • Arson awareness: raising the bar
  • Mad or Bad? The treatment debate for adult arsonists
  • Victims of arson / victimology
  • Geospatial profiling and arson
  • Bushfire arsonists: the constant threat
  • The REAL reason people light fires
  • Future directions for arson research
  • Community strategies - what works; what doesn’t in the war against deliberate fire-setting
  • Pyromania
  • Suicide by fire
  • Filicide by fire
  • Indigenous arson: a misnomer?
  • Copycat offending and arson

FireFocus DVDs - The Psychology Of Adult Arson


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