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Title: The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), Violent Crime

URL: https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=31#summary
The BJS mission is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.

Title: U.S. National Library of Medicine, Violence and mental illness: an overview
URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1525086/
Evaluates the relationship of mental illness and violence by asking three questions: Are the mentally ill violent? Are the mentally ill at increased risk of violence? Are the public at risk?