Dickey's mother drank heavily, and his father, a machine operator on a construction crew and a night watchman at the county juvie, was a distant figure.
A squad of deputies would be dispatched to the woods to round them up and take them to juvie lockup, inking and logging their filthy little fingerprints, taking their urchinesque mug shots, interrogating them, hauling them to court, tossing them into some kind of Boys Town chaos of a prison.
Was she being arrested, taken to juvie court?
The boys in J.C.'s posse joked about juvie court.
On the evidence of her dances, her idea of teen rebellion is hot rods and hormones, jitterbug and juvie, the world of "Rock Around the Clock".
Later on, she was beaten by a foster father, and when he turned on her sweet younger brother, Jude, she took a baseball bat to his car, and ended up in "juvie".
Occasionally, too, there are off-key slang words that may be a result of the translation: a skinhead does a "stretch in juvie"; a girl's pajamas are "very jazzy".
I don't know what the overall recidivism rate for juveniles convicted as adults is, but for parent-killers like Greg in general (whether placed in juvie or tried as adults), almost all studies show that the recidivism rate is extremely low (although again it's hard to state much with absolute confidence due to the low numbers of people who commit parricide).
Sixteen-year-old Eleanor, the daughter of white middle-class parents (to pretend that race and income are not the two most salient points when discussing the various types of teenage pregnancy is dishonest), has become a bad girl: doing drugs, breaking into houses, serving a couple of stints in juvie.
"The Fosters" is a conventional family dramedy about an insistently unconventional family: lesbian mothers (a white police officer and a black charter-school administrator), the officer's biological son, adopted Hispanic twins and a foster daughter fresh out of juvie.
