%0 Journal Article
%T The Last Bastion of Rehabilitation: Contextualizing Youth Correctionalism in Canada
%A Michael Adorjan
%A Rose Ricciardelli
%J The Prison Journal
%@ 1552-7522
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0032885518811807
%X This article draws on research conducted with Canadian provincial correctional officers who have experience with youth in closed-custodial settings since the enactment of the 2003 Youth Criminal Justice Act. In Canada, where attempts to avoid a full embrace of the punitive turn seem to be persistent, we examine youth justice as the ˇ°last bastionˇ± of the rehabilitative ideal as mediated by youth correctional officers. Our findings reveal that while officers retain a clear commitment to the ideal of rehabilitation and a desire to ˇ°saveˇ± young people, they are increasingly under siege by the changing context of prison, shifting managerial priorities, and the paradox of trying to help convicted youth in an inherently punitive environment
%K late modern punishment
%K cultures of control
%K rehabilitation
%K youth justice
%K correctional officers
%K new penology
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0032885518811807