DEVIANT BEHAVIOR OF TEENAGERS AS A SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM
The article investigates the characteristics of the generic term “behavior” and its subtype – “deviant behavior of a person”. It has been defined that fundamental factor of the teenager deviant behavior genesis is the process of socialization the success of which is ensured by active and modifying, creative position of a person. The framework factor of the behavior is the personality orientation, the system of personal meanings (terms), hierarchy of internalized personal values, defining hierarchy of motives. The analysis showed that if the pre-crime behavioral forms aren’t revealed and suppressed timely they will be established into relevant behavioral stereotypes, asocial style of behavior is formed which in some conditions could transform into stable asocial behavior. It is revealed that denial of basic social values could become the origin of socially maladaptive behavior.