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Hello, I am Katlyn Ford. I attend VSU and my major is in Criminal Justice. Another student and I "Yanet Garcia" are conducting a research project under another professor (Wilson Huang) at VSU. Our area of interest is how different criminal justice professionals within correctional facilities, courts, and basic law enforcement have different levels of knowledge when recognizing certain types of mental illness. one of the instruments for our research is a questionnaire. The main part of our questionnaire is in the case study examples we have collected. Therefore, the favor I am asking you is would you please read over the five case studies we have selected and make sure they fit correctly with the disorder. The goal is to see if those who take

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