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Complicated Lives : Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice / Vera Lopez.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rutgers Series in Childhood StudiesPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 2 figures, 3 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813586557
  • 9780813586571
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.36082/0973 23
LOC classification:
  • HV9104 .L66 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Growing Up in a "Dysfunctional" Family -- 2. Mothers' Little Helpers -- 3. Daddy's Little Girl: Feeling Rejected, Abandoned, and Unloved -- 4. Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places -- 5. Doing Drugs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- 6. Parents' Attempts to Intervene on Behalf of Drug-Using Daughters -- 7. Property of the State: Locked Up, Locked Out, and in Need of Treatment -- 8. Moving beyond the Individual toward Programmatic, Systemic, and Policy Solutions -- Appendix A. Doing Research with System-Involved Girls -- Appendix B. Study Participants -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: Complicated Lives focuses on the lives of sixty-five drug-using girls in the juvenile justice system (living in group homes, a residential treatment center, and a youth correctional facility) who grew up in families characterized by parental drug use, violence, and child maltreatment. Vera Lopez situates girls' relationships with parents who fail to live up to idealized parenting norms and examines how these relationships change over time, and ultimately contribute to the girls' future drug use and involvement in the justice system. While Lopez's subjects express concerns and doubt in their chances for success, Lopez provides an optimistic prescription for reform and improvement of the lives of these young women and presents a number of suggestions ranging from enhanced cultural competency training for all juvenile justice professionals to developing stronger collaborations between youth and adult serving systems and agencies.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Growing Up in a "Dysfunctional" Family -- 2. Mothers' Little Helpers -- 3. Daddy's Little Girl: Feeling Rejected, Abandoned, and Unloved -- 4. Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places -- 5. Doing Drugs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- 6. Parents' Attempts to Intervene on Behalf of Drug-Using Daughters -- 7. Property of the State: Locked Up, Locked Out, and in Need of Treatment -- 8. Moving beyond the Individual toward Programmatic, Systemic, and Policy Solutions -- Appendix A. Doing Research with System-Involved Girls -- Appendix B. Study Participants -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

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Complicated Lives focuses on the lives of sixty-five drug-using girls in the juvenile justice system (living in group homes, a residential treatment center, and a youth correctional facility) who grew up in families characterized by parental drug use, violence, and child maltreatment. Vera Lopez situates girls' relationships with parents who fail to live up to idealized parenting norms and examines how these relationships change over time, and ultimately contribute to the girls' future drug use and involvement in the justice system. While Lopez's subjects express concerns and doubt in their chances for success, Lopez provides an optimistic prescription for reform and improvement of the lives of these young women and presents a number of suggestions ranging from enhanced cultural competency training for all juvenile justice professionals to developing stronger collaborations between youth and adult serving systems and agencies.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)