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This article examines for the first time to what extent the lived food-related experiences of incarcerated children match principles proclaimed in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Charter of Rights for Children and Young People Detained in Training Centres. In doing so, consideration is given to the broader personal, situational and structural factors that frame their lives. Drawing on interviews with 40 detainee's aged 10–19 years at the Kurlana Tapa Youth Justice Centre in South Australia, what young people's accounts reveal is that food is a punitive aspect of the custodial experience, particularly in so far as it fails to reflect cultural expectations or preferences. Additional institutional consultation with residents and changes to foodservice are needed to ensure cultural appropriateness in the detention environment, to promote the right of the child or young person to practice their culture, and to positively influence young people's lives while they are in custody, and after their release.

Young Offenders provides one of the most in-depth studies of young males seeking, if often failing, to find a life beyond crime and punishment. Through rich interview data of young offenders over a ten year period, this book explores the complex personal and situational factors that promote and derail the desistance process.

Generativity, defined as the actions of an individual or group that enable others to care in meaningful ways for themselves and their significant others, has become an important concept for thinking about desistance from crime. In this article, we explore opportunities for prison officers in metropolitan and regional South Australia to model and/or engage in generative conduct. We find the emergence of generativity to be idiosyncratic—linked to individual officer's capacities to resist the dominant "us" versus "them" culture—and to be often thwarted by a fatalistic outlook. Correctional policy implications are discussed.

In this article we draw on select data from the longitudinal study 'Generativity in young male (ex)prisoners: Caring for self, other and future within prison and beyond' in order to explore the dynamics of repeat incarceration and release of a small cohort of young men from the perspectives of their formerly incarcerated fathers. Focusing on nine key themes – generated from in-depth interviews – we describe how and under what conditions fathers assist their children to manage the physical and emotional challenges of the prison and/or post-release environments. Importantly, we draw out the ostensibly redemptive if challenging dimensions of such conduct and highlight the prison as a site of secondary trauma for ex-incarcerates attempting to connect with their young incarcerated sons. We suggest that the ex-prisoner-as-visitor-to-their-incarcerated-son equates, in the eyes of prison administrators, to a surrogate form of recidivism. Penal implications of such are discussed.