Theodore Dalrymple: Crime, Punishment, and Prison Psychiatry

0:00 – Intro and sponsors
1:03 – Anthony Daniels on the pen name Theodore Dalrymple
4:22 – Social media bile and life before it
7:57 – Montaigne, self-examination, and the classics
12:11 – Why British courts go easy on criminals
15:06 – Crime and quality of life in New York City
19:03 – The poor suffer most from crime
21:45 – Psychiatrist in a hospital and a prison
24:32 – Victims, dignity, and a de facto curfew
25:53 – Three days in prison per burglary
28:40 – The fish rots from the head down
31:00 – Fatherless households and the family
34:25 – Schools that fail to teach literacy
36:53 – Prisoners who preferred life inside
39:18 – Humor and intelligence among prisoners
41:27 – Helping victims of domestic violence
46:03 – Punishment, deterrence, and lenient sentences
48:52 – Marijuana arrests and plea bargaining
51:35 – Measuring imprisonment against crime
54:13 – Finland's prisons and repeat killers in Britain
59:14 – Women who write to notorious criminals
1:02:31 – Sentencing in the US versus Britain
1:03:35 – Self-defense and proportionality
1:06:39 – Bystanders filming attacks and fear of crime
1:09:46 – Wisdom, writing, and a fortunate life
1:11:41 – Advice for young doctors: travel abroad
1:13:33 – Wrap-up