9781400034246-1400034248-In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family

In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family

ISBN-13: 9781400034246
ISBN-10: 1400034248
Edition: Reprint
Author: Fox Butterfield
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781400034246
ISBN-10: 1400034248
Edition: Reprint
Author: Fox Butterfield
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family (ISBN-13: 9781400034246 and ISBN-10: 1400034248), written by authors Fox Butterfield, was published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other True Crime (Criminology, Social Sciences, Rural, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used True Crime books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.38.

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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.

The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world's prison population. 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. In introducing us to the Bogle family, the author invites us to understand crime in this eye-opening new light. He chronicles the malignant legacy of criminality passed from parents to children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren. 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. And he makes clear how these new insights are leading to fundamentally different efforts at reform. 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.
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