"Cradle to the Jail"

Why does crime start in the home?

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Books by Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple has written numerous books;

• Coups and Cocaine: Two Journeys in South America (1986)
• Fool or Physician: The Memoirs of a Sceptical Doctor (1987)
• Zanzibar to Timbuktu (1988)
• Sweet Waist of America: Journeys around Guatemala (1990)
• The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World (published in the U.S. as Utopias Elsewhere) (1991)
• Monrovia Mon Amour: A Visit to Liberia (1992)
• If Symptoms Persist: Anecdotes from a Doctor (1995)
• So Little Done: The Testament of a Serial Killer (1996)
• If Symptoms Still Persist (1997)
• Mass Listeria: The Meaning of Health Scares (1998)
• An Intelligent Person's Guide to Medicine (2001)
• Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (2001)
• Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies And The Addiction Bureaucracy (2005)
• Our Culture, What's Left of It - The Mandarins and the Masses (2005)

Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It are both available at major bookstores in most cities, or can be ordered in. This may also be true of some of the others. Alternatively, you can order them yourself from Amazon.com which carries a wider range of the above titles.

"This rise [in crime rate] provides no support for liberal theories of crime, no sustenance for the kind of person who proves the strength of his compassion by conceiving of those less law-abiding than himself as automata, mere executors of the dictates of circumstance." - Theodore Dalrymple

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