Life at the Bottom

, by Dalrymple, Theodore

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ISBN: 9781566635059 | 1566635055
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 5/1/2003

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A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prision in England.

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Introduction	p. vii
Grim Reality
The Knife Went In	p. 5
Goodbye, Cruel World	p. 15
Reader, She Married Him--Alas	p. 26
Tough Love	p. 36
It Hurts, Therefore I Am	p. 48
Festivity, and Menace	p. 58
We Don't Want No Education	p. 68
Uncouth Chic	p. 78
The Heart of a Heartless World	p. 89
There's No Damned Merit in It	p. 102
Choosing to Fail	p. 114
Free to Choose	p. 124
What Is Poverty?	p. 134
Do Sties Make Pigs?	p. 144
Lost in the Ghetto	p. 155
And Dying Thus Around Us Every Day	p. 167
Grimmer Theory
The Rush from Judgment	p. 181
What Causes Crime?	p. 195
How Criminologists Foster Crime	p. 208
Policemen in Wonderland	p. 221
Zero Intolerance	p. 233
Seeing Is Not Believing	p. 244
Index	p. 257
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Life at the Bottom

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