Vera Lopez

Complicated Lives

Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 situates girls' relationships with parents who fail to live up to parenting norms and examines how these relationships change over time and contribute to the girls' drug use and involvement in the justice system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780813586557
• ISBN-10: 0813586550
• Artikelnr.: 45799905

Autorenporträt

VERA LOPEZ is an associate professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University in Tempe. She is the coeditor of Adolescent Girls’ Sexualities and the Media.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Appendices
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index