Despite of certain psychiatric conditions that could increase a person's risk of committing a crime, research suggests that patients with mental illness/disorder may be more prone to violence if they do not receive adequate treatment, are actively experiencing delusions, or have long-standing paranoia. Compared to their healthy counterparts in the general population, individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia are 4 to 6 times more likely to commit a violent crime as well as being the victims. In Western countries, there is about 6 percent (%) of the homicide perpetrators in the population are labeled schizophrenic.