| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The Rutgers series in childhood studies |
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Rutgers series in childhood studies.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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' future drug use and involvement in the justice system |
| Analysis |
drugs, girls, drug use, drug abuse, family, correctional facility, youth correctional facility, juvie, juvenile delinquent, drug addict, drug addiction, violence, child abuse, heroin, meth, crack, cocaine, amphetamines, methamphetamines, juvenile justice, group home |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Female juvenile delinquents -- United States -- Social conditions -- Case studies
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Teenage girls -- Drug use -- United States -- Case studies
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Children of drug abusers -- Family relationships -- United States -- Case studies
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Abused children -- United States -- Case studies
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Dysfunctional families -- United States -- Case studies
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Juvenile justice, Administration of -- United States -- Case studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- Addiction.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Work.
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Abused children
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Dysfunctional families
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Juvenile justice, Administration of
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Teenage girls -- Drug use
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813586571 |
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0813586577 |
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9780813586564 |
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0813586569 |
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9780813586564 |
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