Life at the bottom : the worldview that makes the underclass
(2001)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
362.5/DALRYMPLE,T
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2001
DESCRIPTION
xv, 263 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781566635059, 1566633826, 9781566633826, 1566635055
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
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."
CONTENTS
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