Аннотация
The article deals with the psychological characteristics of minors’ victim behavior that led to the differentoffenses. Victimization is understood as a set of properties of the person, specified by the complex of social,psychological and biophysical conditions, conducive to the subject’s maladaptive style of response, resulting indamage to his physical or emotional-mental health. It is proposed victimological classification of the maingroups of crimes committed by minors and its causes. The results of psychological support of colonies’ residentsand victimological circumstances of their victim behavior before their isolation from society were described.