Homelessness can affect a wide range of individuals at any time, often due to unforeseen circumstances, with young people being one of the groups the most vulnerable age. According to a 2008 study by Chamberlin and Mackenzie, 43% of the 100,000 homeless people were aged 24 or younger, and 21% of those people were between 12 and 18 years old. Young people often become homeless due to parental conflict, relationship breakdown with partners and their inability to pay their living expenses, they often come from diverse backgrounds (National Youth Commission, 2008). Homelessness does not always mean "homeless", as is the common perception, it also includes living in shelters, staying temporarily with a friend or in single room boarding houses (National Youth Commission , 2008). Numerous studies have been carried out on the theme of youth. homelessness, including individual pathways to homelessness and further adult homelessness, health aspects, identity construction, government involvement and educational impacts, for just name a few. With such large numbers of young people experiencing homelessness, it has become increasingly important for social practitioners working in a homelessness context to gain a broad understanding of the issues that arise, result from and contribute to it. . The following annotated bibliography attempts to create an overview of the wide range of studies, journal articles and texts on homeless youth, primarily in an Australian context, but also including journal articles from Canadian and American. Booth, S. L. and Conveny, J. (2007). Street survival: prosocial and moral behaviors among food-insecure homeless youth in Adelaide, South Australia. Journal of Hunger & Environment...... middle of article ......outh through a better understanding of youth homelessness. Works citedBandura, A., Barbaranelli, C., Vittoria, CG and Pastorelli, C. (1996). Mechanisms of moral disengagement in the exercise of moral free will. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71(2), 364-74. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.71.2.364 Chamberlain, C. & MacKenzie, D. (2008). Counting the homeless 2006: Australia.Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics, retrieved from http://researchbank.rmit.edu.au/view/rmit:160301 Goering, P., Tolomiczenko, G., Sheldon, T., Boydell, K., & Wasylenki, D. (2002). Characteristics of first-time homeless people. Psychiatric Services, 53(11), 1472-1474. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.53.11.1472 Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The ecology of human development: experiments by nature and design. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press