Fox Butterfield
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"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...