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Butterfield, Fox.
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Bogle, Bobby.
Criminals -- Oregon -- Case studies.
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Crime -- Sociological aspects -- Case studies.
Criminal behavior, Prediction of -- Case studies.
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Butterfield, Fox.
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.
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In my father's house : a new view of how crime runs in the family / Fox Butterfield.
by
Butterfield, Fox.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
Call #:
364.3092 B988i
Subjects
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
.
ISBN:
9781400041022 (hc.)
Alternate title:
New view of how crime runs in the family
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xii, 265 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue: It takes a family to raise a criminal
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I: ORIGINAL SIN. Louis and Elvie : the carnival ; Charlie and Dude : growing up criminal ; A burglary by the whole family
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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
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III: BREAKING THE FAMILY CURSE. Tammie : walking with Jesus ; Ashley : the first to college.
Summary:
"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, a pathbreaking examination of our huge incarceration problem through the lens of the family--specifically one
Oregon
family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness. As few as 5 percent of
families
account for half of all crime, and only 10 percent of
families
account for two-thirds. But the full significance of such astonishing statistics is revealed only when we look into the human faces behind them. Meet, therefore, the Bogles. For them crime is a heritage from deep in the past, a malignant tradition passed from parents to children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren. In the course of a century, at least sixty of their kin have been incarcerated or placed on criminal probation. With keen sympathy and a deep knowledge of criminology, Fox Butterfield, author of the classic work on American violence All God's Children, introduces us to the Bogle family, its winding history, its singular characters and of course its felonies, misdemeanors and malefactions. In one instance mother, father and their eight children get into the family truck and--in the spirit of loving camaraderie with which another family might go out for ice cream--head off to burglarize a fish hatchery. What, Butterfield asks, can the criminal justice system do under such circumstances? The answers to such a question require us to reconsider our preconceptions about justice. They also challenge our deepest stereotypes, for the Bogles, a white family, force us to disentangle race from our ideas about crime. Here we meet individuals who are by turns deplorable, tragic and even inspiring in their efforts to repudiate an outlaw's inheritance. We see the harsh world in which they live and which has, in no small measure, created and perpetuated the family "curse." We come to understand, too, how insights about
families
like the Bogles are beginning to motivate new efforts at reform. [This book] is both the indelible tale of one family's transgressions and tribulations, and a blueprint for an entirely new understanding of crime in America."--Dust jacket.
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