Complicated Lives

Description:

"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."--Back cover.

subjects: Juvenile delinquents,  Youth, drug use,  Child abuse,  Dysfunctional families,  Juvenile justice, administration of,  Female juvenile delinquents,  Case studies,  Social conditions,  Teenage girls,  Drug use,  Children of drug abusers,  Family relationships,  Abused children,  Administration of Juvenile justice,  POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare,  PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work