Social Work Research

Are men diagnosed with schizophrenia more likely to commit violent crimes than men diagonised with mental illness

Schizophrenia

Introduction

These are groups of psychotic diss characterized by gross distortions of reality . Withdrawal from social interactions disorganization and fragmentation of perception , thoughts and emotions and these include

Delusions - These are ideas or beliefs that have no basis or fact Delusions are false personal beliefs based on incorrect inference about external reality and firmly sustained inspite of what almost everyone else believes , and inspite of what constitutes incontrovertible and obvious

proof or evidence to the contrary . Patients may say that they are being spied on or that others are planning to harm them . Bizzare delusions are those that are potentially false and seem strange to anyone who hears them

Hallucinations - They are typically auditory , form of voices speaking to the patient and generally come from outside his head the patient often looks towards the direction from which the voices seem to be from Hallucinations are typically well organized . Schizophrenics have high suicide tendency , about 10 commit suicide , command hallucinations (voices ) may be telling the patient to jump out of a window . These kinds of hallucinations may make the patient act without warning , he may feel the delusion that he can fly and suddenly jump or perform unrealistic feats that really endangers his life . Such patients behave in unpredictable manner and respond to stimuli chosen or unheard by others

Objectives of the study

a )To find out whether men diagnosed with schizophrenia are more likely to commit violent crimes more than those diagnosed with mental illness

b .To asses the impact of schizophrenia and mental illness on men suffering from the disease

c .To come up with recommendations on what can be done to combat schizophrenia and mental illness

Hypothesis

Men suffering from schizophrenia are likely to commit violent crimes than those diagnosed with mental illness

Sampling designs strategies in qualitative research

There are many different qualitative sampling designs that will be used at the different stages of the research or still they will be used for the different purposes of the research . There are those questions that the researchers should constantly be asking themselves which will serve to give relevant information on the sampling strategy design that the researcher would have chosen to use . It will be very crucial for the researcher to give a clear definition of the objectives of the research The time that will be spent making clarification with the client will be a time that will be well spent (Kendy , 19976 . The time the researcher will spend with the men suffering from schizophrenia in trying to find the required information pertaining to their ability to commit crime will be a time well spent . Most of the times , in qualitative research the objectives of the project might be refined as the research will keep on progressing

Sometimes the available resources will try to undermine the progress of a researcher 's project . This should be prevented to happen by considering...