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Table 2 Number of crimes by persons with schizophrenia and the general population

From: Crimes by people with schizophrenia in Korea: comparison with the general population

Types of Crime	People with schizophrenia					General population
Types of Crime	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Overall	1850	1714	1879	2051	2549	1,718,517	1,735,444	1,706,170	1,764,410	1,839,318
Felonies^a	132	160	174	173	188	23,096	24,553	24,199	24,915	26,098
Murder^a	12	11	18	14	14	400	334	381	327	330
Attempted murder^a	17	21	9	15	17	559	566	537	531	563
Robbery^a	13	11	13	12	21	3239	2531	2003	1933	1633
Rape	60	77	87	76	89	17,596	19,870	19,953	20,753	22,338
Arson	30	40	47	56	47	1302	1252	1325	1371	1234
Violence	705	728	729	796	983	381,036	350,686	337,942	349,644	355,976
Theft	299	289	357	350	458	101,547	99,488	92,260	99,485	102,024
Intellectual crimes	115	81	83	102	107	245,994	267,498	253,012	259,734	253,278
Public order crimes	33	30	33	49	57	49,259	46,497	40,005	39,811	44,350
Drug-related crimes^a	46	39	69	94	150	4560	4867	5022	6559	7923
Other crimes	520	387	434	487	606	913,025	941,855	953,730	984,262	1,049,669

^a refers to the crimes whose rates in people with schizophrenia were higher than in the general population

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