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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLowney's research encourages us all to dig deeper when it comes to interpreting the outcomes of statistical surveys. The qualitative methods explored by Lowney's research help us learn the meaning of the data from the offender's own…point of view and make this volume a "must read" for students of qualitative methodology, as well as those studying the nature and causes of alcoholism and drug addition. -- Robert W. Winslow, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, San Diego State University
This remarkable book brings up to date Fr. Jeremiah Lowney's chronicle of the lives of a group of drug and alcohol abusers who he first encountered and befriended on the beaches of Southern California 38 years ago. For the social scientist Lowney…demonstrated the skillful melding of qualitative and quantitative methods in longitudinal research as well as the varied long-range impact of early drug use on later life experiences. For the general reader the book provides some readable and fascinating human life stories. All readers will agree that it was written by a remarkable, skillful, and dedicated man. -- Robert Straus, Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Science at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Table of ContentsChapter 1 1. Introduction Chapter 2 2. Drunkenness, Problem Drinking, and Alcoholism Chapter 3 3. An Ethnography of Drug Use in a Juvenile Residential Treatment Center Chapter 4 4. Origins of the Research and the Wall Gang Chapter 5 5. Details of Methodology: "How Can We Accept What You Say?" Chapter 6 6. Everyday Life in the Golden Beach Drug Subculture: 1975-76 Chapter 7 7. Complementary Results of Qualitative and Quantitative Data Chapter 8 8. Longitudinal Research Through the Years Chapter 9 Appendix A Chapter 10 Appendix B Chapter 11 Index
