> People with mental illness are more likely to be a victim of violent crime than the perpetrator The author addressed that in the article. > Currently, there

> People with mental illness are more likely to be a victim of violent crime than the perpetrator The author addressed that in the article. > Currently, there is scant evidence to suggest that mental illness can independently predict criminal behavior Not all mental illness is the same, which I guess it's what the author of the article tried to explain in that long post of his. People affected by schizophrenia (which are mentally ill people) have bigger odds of being violent, against others or against themselves (this latter part hasn't been touched by the author). Branding people affected by schizophrenia and people affected by severe ADHD (let's say) as basically the same, which is what the latest movement of putting mental disorders all in the same bucket does, is a very dangerous thing to do, again, as explained by the author. Because while it's ok not to institutionalise people affected by "light" mental disorders, is definitely not ok not to keep under a strong supervision and even to institutionalise people affected by debilitating mental disorders (such as schizophrenia), because, if you're not doing that, then those people have greater odds of doing very, very bad things.