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Hi, I need help with essay on Effects of serious mental illness and substance abuse on criminal offenses. Paper must be at least 250 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

The 113 community residents who partook in this study were serial recruits of the Hawaii Jail Diversion Project between May 1998 and August 2001. All these individuals were suffering from serious mental illness and simultaneously occurring substance use disorder. Their average age was 37.6+-8.8 yrs and seventy two percent of them were male. Also, forty one percent were white, twenty nine percent were Hawaiian or Pacific Islanders, eight percent were multiracial and seven percent were Asian. On the whole, the individuals had 12.1+-2.2 yrs of education. Forty percent had been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, thirty four percent with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and twenty six percent with bipolar disorder. Note that all the participants had been indicted for criminal offences.