The Knife Went in: The Decline of the English Murder

Taken together, this lifetime of experience is a clear and unsentimental mirror in which we view modern progress without its varnish.. Illustrated with scores of eye-opening, true-life vignettes, The Knife Went In is in turn hilariously funny, chillingly horrifying, and always unexpectedly revealing. More than half a century ago, George Orwell wrote an essay about the decline of the English murder. Through his experiences, he exposes today's vicious cult of denial, blaming and psychobabble that hides behind a corrosive sentiment of caring. Since the 1990s, Theodore Dalrymple has witnessed its modern variety in real life. Inimitably, his unique portrait of modern criminals is at the same time a parable of dysfunction in our own culture. For over a quarter of a century he has treated and examined many more murderers than most as a prison doctor, psychiatrist, and court expert in