Motivation and motives of juvenile delinquents

The article presents the study results of the motivational sphere of juvenile delinquents. The importance of the presented topic is due to the fact that the problems associated with the deviant behavior of minors attract scientists’ special attention and are constantly considered in both domestic and foreign scientific works. Nevertheless, despite a large number and high level of research devoted to the study of personality characteristics of a minor with deviant behavior, we have to state the lack of work on this problem. The article presents the study results of the juvenile delinquents’ motivation sphere which led to the following conclusions: The features of the motivation for minors’ deviant behavior were established, indicating typical and individual deformations in the structure of motives, goals, needs. Types of minors were identified based on the dominant needs and motives in the motivation; a comparative analysis of motives by age was made. It has been found that the characte