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* The teen gangs in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' can't be controlled by the adults, so they're a type 3.

* The original ''[[Logan's Run]]'' is about a cross between a type 2 and type 4, where everyone is killed when they reach 21. The film version raises the age to 30, which doesn't fit this quite as well.

* ''Diario de la Guerra del Cerdo'' (it was translated as "Diary of the War of the Pig"), a 1969 novel by Argentinean writer and Cervantes Prize winner Adolfo Bioy Casares. A dystopic world where old people is deemed as "useless pigs", any kind of healthcare or benefits has been removed by the government and youngster's mobs are given tacit right to kill them in the streets, forcing them to hide and live a miserable existence in the underworld. Thus, type 3; though the approach to this subject is both grim and comedic at the same time.

* There was a short-lived [[YA Novel]] series called ''2011'' where this scenario happens in a type 3 situation.

* ''Evil'' by Swede Jan Guilliou is set in a 1950s boy's boarding school in which the boys are given to govern themselves in their lives outside the classroom - at one point does the principal step in to stop the beating of the main character during lunch, but only because splatters of blood land in his food. So, type 4.

* A E van Vogt's ''[[Children Of Tomorrow]]'' is a type 4: so many men have gone to war that there aren't enough left on Earth to enforce the law, and the children are organized into "outfits" with police powers.

* Charlie Higson's 'The Enemy', in which fourteen years ago, all people were infected with a disease which took this long to develop. Only people born since then remained. The adults either died or went mad and became cannibalistic zombies.

* Type 1 happens to the nation-state of Canyonar in ''[[Legends of Laconia|Waking Echoes]]'' by Donaya Haymond, as a result of [[The Virus]] that is [[Only Fatal to Adults|Only Fatal To Adults and Prepubescent Children]]. A few of the teens strive for order and peace, but because the place was ''already'' a [[Crapsack World]] before the Famine Fever hit, most of the kids either become cannibalistic looters or join a Fascist-style army with the aim of conquering the currently unaffected neighboring countries.