From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist: a pathbreaking examination of our huge Crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family--specifically one Oregon Family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness.
With his empathic insight and profound knowledge of criminology, Butterfield offers us both the indelible tale of one family\'s transgressions and tribulations, and an entirely new way to understand Crime in America..
And he makes clear how these new insights are leading to fundamentally different efforts at reform.
Examining the long history of the Bogles, a white family, Butterfield offers a revelatory look at criminality that forces us to disentangle race from our ideas about Crime and, in doing so, strikes at the heart of our deepest stereotypes.
He chronicles the malignant legacy of criminality passed from parents to children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren.
In introducing us to the Bogle family, the author invites us to understand Crime in this eye-opening new light.
But our reliance on mass incarceration, Fox Butterfield argues, misses the intractable reality: As few as 5 percent of families account for half of all crime, and only 10 percent account for two-thirds.
The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world\'s prison population.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist: a pathbreaking examination of our huge Crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family--specifically one Oregon Family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness
