In this journal, Elbogen and Johnson study the relationship between mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, and violent committed acts. The researchers’ main purpose of studying this field was to clarify the, “public opinions about the dangerousness of people with psychiatric disorders.” (152). This particular study was done by looking at 2 different sets of data. The first set of data was conducted through interviewing over 43,000 people who would be more likely to struggle with abuse, like those in shelters, halfway houses, and motels. After the first round of interviews, if the subjects met the requirement of abuse struggles, they were interviewed a second time. The second interview, or wave 2 of the experiment, consisted of asking the subjects
