1990'4, p.83
Zaika E. V. , Kreydun N. P. , Yachina A. S.
Psychological mechanisms of deformed personality development in teenagers - delinquents
(RESUME)

The results of complex study of three groups of adolescents (schoolchildren, teenagers registered by militia, teenagers-delinquents) are described. The peculiarities of their attitute towards the future, of social connections and of personal characteristics are shown. The notion of deformed personality development mechanism including the formation and development of "criminogenic complex" (stable set of different qualities determining unlawful behaviour) is worked out.