The peer environment of socially maladjusted youth

The article attempts to get to know the peer groups of boys staying in a youth care center. Studies were carried out to determine, among other things, the importance of the peer group in the lives of the respondents and what pathological phenomena characterized belonging to these groups. The obtained research results allowed to formulate the statement that the demoralized peer group is a predictor of the creation of maladjusted social youth.