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Received: 15 June 2024

Accepted: 7 October 2024

First Online: 24 October 2024

Declarations

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: Ethical approval was not required as this study exclusively analysed data from existing peer-reviewed publications, without engaging human subjects or handling identifiable individual data.

: Articles incorporated into this review have been authored by contributors to this study. Steps were taken to mitigate potential biases as authors without prior publication in youth misuse of fire were involved in the literature search, selection process, and quality assessment.

: This study’s objectives, methods, search protocol, and intended analyses were preregistered with the Open Science Framework (OSF). The preregistration includes details of the study design, hypotheses, and target analyses. The full registration can be accessed via the following link: .

: Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies were not used by the authors during the preparation of this work.

: Data extracted from publicly available studies is included in the supplementary materials.