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Public Policy Analysis: the Crime Rate Among Schizophrenic People
Summary: People who have the chronic, disabling brain disease schizophrenia have been found to have a higher than average incidence of crime. Neither the improper management of schizophrenic people by police officers and the current approach of placing potentially dangerous schizophrenics in prison provide the treatment these people need to get better and stop committing the same crimes over and over again. To reduce the crime rate among schizophrenics, we must enact new policies that take the schizophrenic condition more into consideration.
Schizophrenia is one of the most severe, chronic and disabling brain diseases. The most common assumption about this disease is that those who suffer from it have a "split personality." In the United States and other countries around the world, approximately 1 - 2% of the population has schizophrenia. This works out to about 2 million people diagnosed each year in America. Though it affects men and women at the same frequency, it appears in men usually in the late teens to early twenties and for women in the early twenties to early thirties.
The exact causes are not yet determined, but damaged portions of genes play a big part in the development of schizophrenia. This could be caused by the exposure to viruses in the womb during embryonic development. Other risk factors include environmental conditions such as stress and drug abuse, hypothyroidism, birth trauma, maternal illness and complications while in...
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