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Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist, "offers a searing account--probably the best yet published--of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does."

Grim Reality -- Knife Went In -- Goodbye, Cruel World -- Reader, She Married Him--Alas -- Tough Love -- It Hurts, Therefore I Am -- Festivity, and Menace -- We Don't Want No Education -- Uncouth Chic -- Heart of a Heartless World -- There's No Damned Merit in It -- Choosing to Fail -- Free to Choose -- What Is Poverty? -- Do Sties Make Pigs? -- Lost in the Ghetto -- And Dying Thus Around Us Every Day -- Grimmer Theory -- Rush from Judgment -- What Causes Crime? -- How Criminologists Foster Crime -- Policemen in Wonderland -- Zero Intolerance -- Seeing Is Not Believing