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Author Butterfield, Fox, author.

Title In my father's house : a new view of how crime runs in the family / Fox Butterfield.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  364.3 BUTTERFIELD    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.3092 BUTTERFIELD    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  364.3 BUTTERFIELD    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.3092 BUTTERFIELD    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.3 BUT    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.3092 BUT    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  364.3 BUTTERFIELD    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  364.3092 BUT    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  364.3092 BUTTERFIELD    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  364.3092 BUTTERFIELD    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xii, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-252) and index.
Contents Prologue: It takes a family to raise a criminal -- I: ORIGINAL SIN. Louis and Elvie : the carnival ; Charlie and Dude : growing up criminal ; A burglary by the whole family -- II: AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM. Rooster and his boys : on to Oregon ; Bobby and Tracey : the family curse ; Kathy : "trailer trash" ; Tracey : a fateful compulsion ; Tony : a murder in Tucson -- III: BREAKING THE FAMILY CURSE. Tammie : walking with Jesus ; Ashley : the first to college.
Summary "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." -- Amazon.com.
Subject Bogle, Bobby.
Criminals -- Oregon -- Case studies.
Criminals -- Family relationships -- Oregon -- Case studies.
Families -- Oregon -- Case studies.
Crime -- Sociological aspects -- Case studies.
Criminal behavior, Prediction of -- Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
Crime -- Sociological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00883017
Criminal behavior, Prediction of. (OCoLC)fst00883179
Criminals. (OCoLC)fst00883516
Criminals -- Family relationships. (OCoLC)fst00883526
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Oregon. (OCoLC)fst01204579
Genre/Form Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
Biographies.
Case studies.
ISBN 9781400041022 (hardcover)
1400041023 (hardcover)
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