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Adorjan, M., &Ricciardelli, R. (2018). The Last Bastion of Rehabilitation: Contextualizing Youth Correctionalism in Canada. Prison Journal, 98(6), 655–677.
This article draws on research conducted with Canadian provincial correctional officers who have experience working with youth in closed-custodial settings since the enactment of the 2003 Youth Criminal Justice Act. The authors report the officers they interviewed had a clear commitment to the ideal of rehabilitation and a desire to "save" the young people they were working with. However they also reported their struggles in doing so in an inherently punitive environment.
Fox, Darrell. (Summer 2015). “Law and Order Conservatism and Youth Justice:Outcomes and Effects in Canada and England and Wales” in British Journal of Community Justice, 13(2): pp.79–98.
This paper explores how underlying law and order conservatism has shaped and defined youth justice policy in England and Wales and Canada.
Hyde, Carolyn, Voula Marinos and Nathan Innocente. (2016). “What Do Meaningful Consequences and Fair and Proportionate Accountability Mean to Youth Offered Extrajudicial Sanctions in Ontario?” in Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 58(2): pp. 194–220.
This is an exploratory study that was aimed at examining the perceptions of young persons who have accepted extrajudicial sanctions in a single courthouse in Ontario.
Jackson, Nate. (2015). “Aboriginal Youth Overrepresentation in Canadian Correctional Services: Judicial and Non-Judicial Actors and Influence” in Alberta Law Review, 52(4): pp.927–947.
This article explores Aboriginal youth overrepresentation in correctional services under the YCJA in an attempt to discern why it has been less effective at reducing custody rates for Aboriginal youth compared to their non-Aboriginal peers.
Jones, Brock. (2015). “Accepting That Children Are Not Miniature Adults: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Youth Criminal Justice Developments in Canada and the United States” in Canadian Criminal Law Review, 19(1): pp.95–113.
The authors conduct a comparative analysis of recent youth criminal justice developments in Canada and the United States.
Jones, Natalie J., David Robinson, Shelley L. Brown and Deanna Frey. (2016). “Validity of the Youth Assessment and Screening Instrument: A Juvenile Justice Tool Incorporating Risks, Needs, and Strengths” in Law & Human Behavior (American Psychological Association), 40(2): pp.182–194.
This study’s primary purpose is to introduce the Youth Assessment and Screening Instrument, which is a comprehensive assessment protocol gauging a range of risks, needs, and strengths associated with criminal conduct in juvenile populations.
Longstaffe, S., Chudley, A. E., Harvie, M. K., Markesteyn, T., Neault, D., & Brown, T. (2018). The Manitoba Youth Justice Program: empowering and supporting youth with FASD in conflict with the law. Biochemistry & Cell Biology, 96(2), 260–266.
This paper describes the basic science around FASD and its diagnosis, provides a history of the FASD Youth Justice Program, and reports on legal issues, structure, statistics, accomplishments, and ongoing future challenges.
Mann, Ruth M. (2014). “Canada’s Amended Youth Criminal Justice Act and the Problem of Serious Persistent Youth Offenders: Deterrence and the Globalization of Juvenile Justice” in Journal of the Institute of Justice & International Studies, 14: pp.59–72.
According to its abstract, this paper “assesses the amended Canada’s Amended Youth Criminal Justice Act introduction of deterrence as an additional sentencing aim through analyses of a subset of interviews with persistent male youth offenders recruited in a youth correctional facility in southern Ontario.”
Peterson-Badali, Michele, Sarah McCormick, Nina Vitopoulos, Krista Davis, ZohrahHaqanee and Tracey A. Skilling. (January 2015). “Mental Health in the Context of Canada’s Youth Justice System” in Canadian Criminal Law Review. Vol. 19, Issue 1: pp.5-20.
According to its abstract, this article examines “several aspects of the intersection between mental health and Canadian youth justice policy and practice, with a particular focus on describing models of the relationship between mental health problems and justice system involvement and considering the implications of these models for the effective assessment and treatment of justice-involved youth.”
Tsionne Salole, Abigail and Zakaria Abdulle. (2015). “Quick to Punish: An Examination of the School to Prison Pipeline for Marginalized Youth” in Canadian Review of Social Policy/Revue Canadienne de Politique Sociale, 72(72): pp.124–168.
This article examines the complex relationship between education and the criminal justice system for marginalized and racialized youth.