There was a Danish study that showed us that twenty-seven percent of those that are later diagnosed with schizophrenia enter the criminal career before the first contact to the psychiatric hospital system. If they are not diagnosed on time they might be almost impossible to be stopped in time before they start committing crimes. The research consists of figuring out whether the first contact to the psychiatric hospital system helped them figure out if the patients had been involved in crimes before they had become schizophrenia patients. Within the project they did research on individuals with a first-episode psychosis. This was done for two years on the same individuals from sixteen different psychiatric hospitals. The information collected was done on basic socio-demographic variables like; employment status, marital status, education and living conditions. They recorded different symptoms, these included delusions, persecutory delusions, jealousy, hallucination, being controlled, or influenced, and other kind of symptoms the patients would show. Some measurements were used like the Premorbid Adjustment Scale (PAS). This would measure the social competence and the extent to which the individual is capable to meet their appropriate expectations before illness on set according to their age and sex. The ratings were based on the interview with the patient, the records from the hospital, and interviews with their family members. In this research their results were that the people without abusive backgrounds and with better occupational status (jobs) and with higher education were the ones that are less likely to have criminal records. It was the same for women and men. What they ended up with is that even if someone is having problems with schizophrenia they will not always go into criminal careers. If they are well educated and have support from their family they can be helped and cured. Also if they are not treated about thirty percent of the people do commit some crimes.
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