Volume 3 Issue 6 June, 2013
❌ People who commit crime are mentally Ill
✅ Majority of those who commit crime are not mentally ill. In fact people with mental illness implicated in crime neither have ‘intention’ nor ‘understand the consequence’ of the act, which is essential for culpable crime.
❌ Patients with mental illness who have been implicated in crime do not have separate law
✅ Patients with mental illness have separate law in almost all countries so that they are not prosecuted when they commit crime during the phase of illness.
❌ Patients with mental illness commit crime under disguise of illness.
✅ Extensive and large population studies have shown, people with mental illness are least implicated in crime when compared to general population. However anybody who tries to disguise as being mentally ill in a crime will be thoroughly evaluated for mental illness. The crime should not have been premeditated nor should individual have knowledge of the consequences of the act.
