Does violence towards themselves count as a 'Violent Crime' in this statistic?
Why don't you read the article, dumbass. And no it doesn't.
When I skimmed it I guess I skipped the portion that defined it:
Violent crime (any criminal conviction for homicide, assault, robbery, arson, any sexual offense, illegal threats, or intimidation).This makes me wonder what their convictions were in particular, like how many of these ended up legitimate homicides and assaults.
I've been led to believe that most expressions of Schizophrenia tend to harm inwards unless their psychotic break's that severe. In most cases they're overloading and can't really function well enough like that to be a legitimate threat towards anyone other than themselves. The combination of that with substances definitely makes sense when it as a disorder is highly prone to self-medicating in order to try to keep themselves under control, but considering that they also list 'sexual offense, illegal threats, or intimidation' I'm wondering what the spread is like within this criteria.
That being said I'd venture that Men (around 49.2% of people) are overall a bigger threat to humanity than Schizophrenics (around 1% of people), and as we learn to cure disorders we will be ridding the world of the problem. Naturally it'd make more sense to address the bigger issue first, namely the one that's over fourty-nine times larger that continues to plague us to this day.It's clear you didn't even click on the link. It says clearly
If I didn't click the link then why did I know they used the phrase 'Violent Crime' a ton?
Your logic makes no sense, clearly I must have clicked it if I put little quotey marks around it. In this case when I skimmed through it I accidently overlooked the portion that defined their idea of what constitutes a 'Violent Crime', which is what I was asking over.
Perhaps you should kill yourself to speed up the process of reducing crime. Every bit counts.