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People associate mental disorder with violence. We found that crime and mental disorder are linked, but not in the way people think: Persons with severe mental disorders are terribly vulnerable to victimization.
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— Linda Teplin, discussing her research paper ‘Crime victimization in adults with severe mental illness’ (This paper is under paid access, but free articles summarizing it can be read here and here)
I thought, given recent discussions here and elsewhere following the horrible events of last week in Newtown CT, this was a really appropriate time to reblog this quote that I transcribed in the summer.
(via mindovermatterzine)
