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Author:
Lopez, Vera, 1971- author.
Title:
Complicated lives : girls, parents, drugs, and juvenile justice / Vera Lopez.
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
vii, 225 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Female juvenile delinquents--United States--Social conditions--Case studies.
Teenage girls--Drug use--United States--Case studies.
Children of drug abusers--Family relationships--United States--Case studies.
Abused children--United States--Case studies.
Dysfunctional families--United States--Case studies.
Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States--Case studies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
Series:
The Rutgers series in childhood studies
ISBN:
0813586542
9780813586540
0813586550
9780813586557
OCLC:
(OCoLC)959034490
LCCN:
2016038036
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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