Juvenile firesetting remains underexamined in non-Western forensic populations. This study investigated the psychiatric, motivational, and familial characteristics of 55 adolescents (mean age = 15.05 years; 92.7% male) referred for court-ordered forensic psychiatric assessment in Turkey between 2019 and 2025. Structured coding captured motivational subtypes, family adversity, psychiatric diagnoses, co-occurring offending, and incident characteristics. Motivations included antisocial/criminal,…
