Title Complicated lives : girls, parents, drugs, and juvenile justice / Vera Lopez.

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New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

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Description	1 online resource.
Series	The Rutgers series in childhood studies
	Rutgers series in childhood studies.
Bibliography	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.
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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.
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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.
	Abused children. (OCoLC)fst00794809
	Dysfunctional families. (OCoLC)fst01728523
	Juvenile justice, Administration of. (OCoLC)fst00985472
	Teenage girls -- Drug use. (OCoLC)fst01145424
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
Other Form:	Print version: Lopez, Vera, 1971- Complicated lives. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2017] 9780813586557 (DLC) 2016038036 (OCoLC)959034490
ISBN	9780813586571 (electronic book)
	0813586577 (electronic book)
	9780813586564 (e-book (epub)
	0813586569
	9780813586564
	9780813586557
	0813586550
	9780813586540
	0813586542

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