Theodore Dalrymple
George Orwell famously but romantically wrote about the decline of the English murder as a journalist. In this perceptive and drily-witty book, Theodore Dalrymple delves deep as a doctor into the criminal mind of modern murderers and the police, court and prison system to discover what this part of our society says about the rest of us. It is full of surprises, from the realization that, if the court system is to be believed, a bad character has become an extenuating circumstance to the fact...

