A study by psychologist Henry Steadman and his colleagues monitored the behavior of more than 1,000 former mental patients for a year after they were discharged from psychiatric facilities. They also monitored the behavior of a matched control group of people who were not former mental patients but were living in the same neighborhood. What did the study find?

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The study found that the former mental patients did not have a higher rate of violence than the comparison group, so choice D is the correct answer. Choice A, that the control group was more likely to smoke cigarettes, and choice C, that the former mental patients were more likely to be victims of violent crime, are not supported by the study. Choice B, that the former mental patients were almost three times as likely to behave violently, is actually the opposite of what the study found.

A Study by Psychologist Henry Steadman and His Colleagues Monitored