The issues of my research study concern psychosocial and personality conditioning of criminal thinking styles of juveniles.

The objective of my research study is to distinguish and characterize profiles of criminal thinking styles of juvenile boys and girls who committed a criminal offence and to define psychosocial (restricting to the family environment - a guardian system) and personality factors conditioning a criminal thinking style of juveniles.

For the purpose of the research following methods have been used: PICTS by G. Walters - has been adapted into polish circumstances, Values Scale (Rokeach), Davis Empathy Scale, The Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS) by Fitts, Skala Postaw by Plpoa, KBPK by Kurzyp-Wojnarska.

In the analysed problem the following research tasks are involved:

1. · Singling out of juvenile criminal thinking styles

2. · determining the criminal predicators in criminal thinking styles

3. · establishing predicators of criminal thinking styles, defining factors determining criminal thinking style of juveniles (a group of explanatory variables include: thinking styles of parents (guardians), parents’ attitude towards a child, a value system of parents, personality variables of a juvenile, i.e. self-esteem, empathy level (level of emphatic understanding), a sense of control and a social competence level).showing (presenting) constitutive differences and similarities In terms of criminal thinking styles between the group of minors and their parents (guardian)

4. · establishing the differences and similarities in terms of cognitive functioning (thinking styles) of the juveniles due to the criminal act.