Better than a lynching

Rather than clamor for the arrested arsonist to be lynched, (especially before any conviction), shouldn’t such people as the Facebook vigilantes push for funding of psychological assessments of firefighters, both volunteers and permanents, so the "hero-firefighter" types are rejected?

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See Also/Notes:

• "Punishing Arsonists" (2009-02-09)
• "Publication with prejudice" (2009-02-16) by LegalEagle at SkeptiCLAWer
• From the Australian Institute of Criminology:
  • "Bushfire arson : a review of the literature" (ISBN 0 642 53851 4 ; ISSN 1326-6004, 2004) including Executive Summary
  • "Firefighter arson : part 1 : incidence and motives" (ISSN 1832-2743, 2005)
  • "Firefighter arson : part 2 : profile" (IISSN 1832-2743, 2005)
  • "Firefighter arson : part 3 : a case study" (IISSN 1832-2743, 2005)

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