Bushfires highlight lack of arson prevention and treatment. Bushfires highlight lack of arson prevention and treatment. Print. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcast: 2. 2/1. Reporter: Tracy Bowden. The shock of the bushfire crisis in New South Wales is made worse by news that some fires have been deliberately lit but, despite the frequency and cost of arson, prevention and treatment programs are under- resourced. Transcript. ANNABEL CRABB, PRESENTER: The shock of the fire crisis has been compounded by news that some of the fires consuming NSW were deliberately lit, according to police, including by children as young as 1. Today an 1. 1 year old boy accused of lighting two fires that destroyed more than 5,0. A 1. 5 year old charged over the same fire will appear in court next month. Despite the frequency and the cost of arson, prevention and treatment programs are severely under resourced. Tracy Bowden reports. 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TRACY BOWDEN: As dozens of fires blazed across NSW last week, people were stunned to learn that according to police a number had been deliberately lit. Two boys aged 1. 1 and 1. Inpatient Services - Psychiatric Hospital. Self-Sufficiency Programs. Find an office near you. About The Clean Slate Addiction Site is dedicated to bringing you. Are you somehow missing the point when you teach fire safety to an arsonist? Newcastle, north of Sydney. The 1. 1 year old appeared in court today accused of using a cigarette lighter to set fire to an abandoned mattress and later lighting a grassfire. A 1. 5 year old is due in court next month over the same blaze. IAN MCNAB, NSW POLICE ARSON UNIT COMMANDER: It's just concerning that in these conditions that children are lighting fires and these small fires can actually grow very quickly and become a very dangerous fire. JANET STANLEY, MONASH SUSTAINABILITY INSTITUTE: With a child it might just be an accident, you know, it's fun to watch a fire. You light it and in the circumstances that we've got at the moment with climate change it gets away when it probably wasn't meant to get away. TRACY BOWDEN: Researchers say there is no typical arsonist. National Drug Control Strategy. Drug use affects every sector of society. The Administration has supported and expanded community-based efforts to prevent drug use. Bushfires highlight lack of arson prevention and. Despite the frequency and the cost of arson, prevention and treatment programs are severely under. JANET STANLEY: There's some trends that we can discern. We believe about 9. TRACY BOWDEN: As to why people light fires psychologists say some arsonists have a grievance, others have a history of antisocial behaviour and some want to send a message. TROY MCEWAN, VIC. INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH: We know they have poor communication skills, poor social skills, they're not very assertive. They find it hard to say what they want and what they need and so the fire can be - they can start using fire because it gets lots of attention very quickly. ABC NEWS ARCHIVE FOOTAGE: Police have charged a man with arson over one of the deadly Victorian bushfires. TRACY BOWDEN: The Churchill fire on Black Saturday in Victoria in 2. Brendan Sokaluk was sentenced to 1. He's autistic and has a mild intellectual disability. TROY MCEWAN: Certainly people who have intellectual disability and other kind of development disorders are overrepresented in examples of arsonists. JANET STANLEY: It's very common for them to be disengaged from society, so they're unemployed, low skills, isolated perhaps, perhaps not integrated into the community. So they're on the fringe of society a bit and often the lighting of fires is an attempt to get back into the community and be part of the community. TRACY BOWDEN: It's hard to understand but a small number of the would- be heroes who fight fires are also arsonists. A former Sydney volunteer fire fighter, David Mills, was sentenced to five years jail for starting fires at Ku- ring- gai Chase National Park in Sydney's north. When he appealed his sentence the court was told he suffers from depression and has been diagnosed with ADHD. TROY MCEWAN: Some of these fire fighters have kind of a need for recognition. People probably understand the idea of a hero complex and wanting to go out and put the fire out. There's some interesting findings that these fire fighters kind of have a sense of - they can control the fire and so they set the fire in the belief that they can actually control it and have power over it which is often incorrect. TRACY BOWDEN: As the bushfire emergency continues in NSW, police profilers have a list of serial arson suspects under surveillance. IAN MCNAB: We've developed a database of a number of people who has either been convicted or there's enough intelligence for us to believe that they may be possible able to light a fire so we will look at strategies to ensure they don't light fires on those days, and pretty much a proactive approach. If we can prevent a fire it can save a lot of grief. One tiny small grassfire on the side of the road can turn into something catastrophic. TRACY BOWDEN: There are treatment and prevention programs for children and adults in Australia but they're severely under resourced as is long term research. TROY MCEWAN: Funding is the issue and being able to conduct long term organised bodies of research. It is a big issue and we're really working three years to three years without any guarantees. JANET STANLEY: We could do a great deal more than we do. The fire- fighter s conduct education programs for children so they go to schools and if a child is identified as having a propensity to light fires they will go and conduct a program with them. And this is very important and very good. But it's only very small in scale. TRACY BOWDEN: With forecasts of longer bushfire seasons in the years ahead, experts say it's vital Australia focuses on learning more about how to prevent the dangerous work of arsonists. JANET STANLEY: Until we actually understand the behaviour a lot more you can't successfully target your resources to prevent it.
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