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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
