Complicated Lives: Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice

by Vera Lopez

Winner of the 2019 Intersectional Book Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women & Crime​

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'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813586542
• ISBN13: 9780813586540
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher