Research has found that 77% will have a conviction and 31% will have spent time in prison.
The figures come from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, a research project following 4300 young people since 1998.
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Three in four teenagers in care will have criminal conviction by age 22
More than three-quarters of children who are in residential care by their 16th birthday will have a criminal conviction by the age of 22, according to damning new figures.
