Monday Matters #25

Link: http://www.sociologytimes.com/research/Study_shows_mentally_ill_more_likely_to_be_victims_not_perpetrators_of_violence.asp

This article talks about the correlation between the mentally ill and violence. While many seem to believe that the mentally ill are the perpetrators of violence. Studies from the North Carolina State University propose that a high number of violent adults that are mentally ill are also victims of violence. Also, a high number have reported to have been treated violently on multiple occasions. The article also reports that the mentally ill are 11 times more likely to be violent if they have been victims to violence. The article ends saying that we need  to not only help the mentally ill from being violent, but also helping them by protecting them from being victimized by other people. This in turn, according to their studies, would lower the amount of violence coming from mentally ill adults.