Complicated Lives : Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice /

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Complicated Lives focuses on the lives of sixty-five drug-using girls in the juvenile justice system who grew up in families characterized by parental drug use, violence, and child maltreatment. Vera Lopez's work examines how these relationships with their parents contribute to the girls'...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lopez, Vera, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Teenage girls > Drug use.
Juvenile justice, Administration of.
Dysfunctional families.
Abused children.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Social Work.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Addiction.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Familles inadaptees > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Enfants de toxicomanes > Relations familiales > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Jeunes delinquantes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Études de cas.
Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States > Case studies.
Dysfunctional families > United States > Case studies.
Abused children > United States > Case studies.
Children of drug abusers > Family relationships > United States > Case studies.
Teenage girls > Drug use > United States > Case studies.
Female juvenile delinquents > United States > Social conditions > Case studies.
United States.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Growing up in a "dysfunctional" family
  • Mothers' little helpers
  • Daddy's little girl: feeling rejected, abandoned, and unloved
  • Looking for love in all the wrong places
  • Doing drugs: the good, the bad, and the ugly
  • Parents' attempts to intervene on behalf of drug-using daughters
  • Property of the state: locked up, locked out, and in need of treatment
  • Moving beyond the individual toward programmatic, systemic, and policy solutions.

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