◎ contents 1. studying young people in late modernity 2. young offenders,risk and personal development programmes 3. young peoeple and illicit drug use in postmodern times? 4. victims of risk? young people and the construction of lifestyles 5. global clubcultures : cultural flows and late modern dance music culture 6. research on youth transitions : some critical interventions 7. new deal or raw dea? dilemmas and paradoxes of state interventions into the youth labour market 8. domestic and housing transitions and the negotiation of intimacy 9. ignoring the past : under-employment and risk in late modernity