Though in theory a closed place can have therapeutic value for de-structured, violent or delinquent adolescents, in practice to obtain this objective considerable resources are necessary, not only material but human. The author of this article doubts that in the long run such resources can be maintained, which means that the caregiving quality within such « walls » would always be unpredictable to say the least…

Adolescence, 2009, T. 27, n°2, pp. 377-381