Traditionally? Well, in the US since Reagan
turned the mentally ill out in the streets maybe.
Hal
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On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Larissa Shmailo wrote:
> Also, mental illness is traditionally criminalized. NAMI (the
> U.S. advocacy
> group National Association for the Mentally Ill) reports that
> mentally ill
> people usually are more often victims of violence than
> perpetrators but more
> often arrested. I believe NAMI's statistics for prevalence of
> violent
> behavior are based on the mentally ill population called Axis I by
> the Diagnostic
> and Statistical Manual of Mental Illness IV --the group that
> includes people
> with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
>
> Larissa Shmailo
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