ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the exclusionary pressures on young people. It discusses the difficulties for young people in the prolonged transition to adulthood. In general young people are at the receiving end of a cascade of social changes and policy changes that remove public resources from their grasp. Many researchers have noted the prolonged and complex nature of the transition from youth to adulthood that young people now face. Researchers have long noted how gender impacts on performance in school. Feminists argues that the upsurge in anti-social behaviour is not the mother's fault, and point to received messages on masculinity embedded in peer-group opinions, media imagery and corporate marketing techniques. The authors of an Ipsos Mori survey found that it could predict how anti-social behaviour would be perceived by residents in a given area by its level of deprivation, population density, recorded level of violent crime and the proportion of residents aged 25 years and under.
