Since the 1920s the extended Bogle family has produced 60 criminals that Fox Butterfield was able to identify. Is criminality in the genes or in the environment? That’s the question Butterfield sets out to answer through extensive interviews, court records, and other sources. The book painstakingly—and painfully—traces the criminal exploits of the worst members of the Bogles through Oklahoma, Texas, Washington, and Oregon. The book is a follow-on to ‘All God’s Children: The Bosket Family,’ which asked similar questions of one African American family. Butterfield is light on analysis, but he does identify some of the factors that seem to lock so many of the Bogles and others like them into a future of crime.