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Life at the bottom : the worldview that makes the underclass / Theodore Dalrymple.
Van Pelt Library RC451.P6 D35 2001
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dalrymple, Theodore.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor--Mental health--Great Britain.
- Poor.
- Criminals--Mental health--Great Britain.
- Criminals.
- Prisoners--Mental health--Great Britain.
- Prisoners.
- Prisoners--Mental health.
- Criminals--Mental health.
- Poor--Mental health.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 263 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2001.
- Summary:
- Theodore Dalrymple argues that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values, one that is continually reinforced by an elite culture searching for victims.
- Contents:
- Grim Reality
- The Knife Went In 5
- Goodbye, Cruel World 15
- Reader, She Married Him
- Alas 26
- Tough Love 36
- It Hurts, Therefore I Am 48
- Festivity, and Menace 58
- We Don't Want No Education 68
- Uncouth Chic 78
- The Heart of a Heartless World 89
- There's No Damned Merit in It 102
- Choosing to Fail 114
- Free to Choose 124
- What Is Poverty? 134
- Do Sties Make Pigs? 144
- Lost in the Ghetto 155
- And Dying Thus Around Us Every Day 167
- Grimmer Theory
- The Rush from Judgment 181
- What Causes Crime? 195
- How Criminologists Foster Crime 208
- Policemen in Wonderland 221
- Zero Intolerance 233
- Seeing Is Not Believing 244.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1566633826
- OCLC:
- 47100708
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