Girls, Gangs, Women, and Drugs is a book about women, young and old; it is about gangs; is a book about their survial in a society that has abandoned them; it is a book about women in the criminal justice system; it is about judges, attorneys, administrators of the court, and correctional officers; it is about the women that serve on the police force. It focuses on a large segment of Detroit's female population and how these women see what they are doing as committing acts of self-empowerment - the personal pursuit of their version of the "American Dream."