ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews research on categories of young people for whom the transitions to adulthood prove particularly difficult. There has been a growing recognition amongst youth scholars in the UK that we must examine not only the school-to-work transition but other interlocking transitions; the domestic careers; and housing careers. Young people looked after in the public care, either with foster parents or in children’s homes, are a tiny fraction of the population with those leaving care accounting for less than one percent of the age group. Three quarters of the young people in care studied by Garnett had no qualifications at the age of 16, compared to 11 per cent in the non-care populations in the authorities in which the research took place. S. Craine’s research gives an insight into the development of careers which involve activities which are clearly ‘criminal’.
