Abstract
The article highlights the problems of deviant, including delinquent, behavior of teenagers involved in criminal activity. In addition, the reasons for the occurrence of deviant behavior among teenagers, methods of combating them, and prevention issues were discussed here. In addition, separate concepts and features of teenagers involved in criminal legal relations were studied. Various aspects of delinquent behavior and the mechanism of its formation are considered in this article. Illuminated study of crime from a social point of view and problems of socialization of personality, environment affecting teenagers, problems of the environment concept of “criminal reputation”. In this work, a complex psychological-pedagogical approach to solving the problem of reducing the level of crime among minors is considered.