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" Our cultural belief about mentally ill people is that they are more apt to commit crimes than are people who are mentally well. This is not the case. People with psychiatric illnesses are far more likely to be victims of crimes than they are to be perpetrators. "

Christine Montross , Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration


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Christine Montross quote : Our cultural belief about mentally ill people is that they are more apt to commit crimes than are people who are mentally well. This is not the case. People with psychiatric illnesses are far more likely to be victims of crimes than they are to be perpetrators.