Social and role personality characteristic of minor criminal condemned to corrective works is considered in this article. It assumes research of social positions and roles of persons, their social and role fields. The social position represents a set of relations in the social system. The considered characteristic allows seeing the criminal's personality in reality, which follows from this person's performance of certain social roles. Analysis of the behaviour of the minor, condemned to corrective works, from the moment of commission of crime is necessary as a mechanism, allowing to characterize the personality of most of the condemned. The minor, condemned to corrective works, simultaneously occupies a set of social positions: in a family s/he is a son (daughter), at his/her workplace a worker, in an educational institution a pupil. Only 53.6% of minors, condemned to corrective works in Tomsk, Kemerovo and Novosibirsk (2005-2010), studied in various educational institutions at the moment of commission of crime. In the poll among the minors condemned to corrective works, almost all of them (about 90%) have specified that they do not have a desire to study, which explains their skipping classes and poor study results. Teachers notice that, as a rule, this age category of the condemned has controversial relations with contemporaries, are often rude with teachers. The majority of the minors (75.5%) have negative characteristics from workplace in many respects caused by infringement of labour discipline: negligent relation to labour functions performance, in particular, poor-quality performance of the duties, and being regularly late for work. 24.5% of the minors are positively characterized minors in the organization, at the enterprise; encouragement measures are applied to them according to the labour legislation. Among the measures of encouragements specified in Article 191 of the Labour Code of the Russian Federation employers basically make gratitude announcements. 98% of employers specified announcing gratitude as a way of encouragement of the worker; one employer mentioned "sending a letter of gratitude to the family of the minor" as an encouragement measure. Encouragement appears in the order of the employer. Not a single employer specified a simultaneous application of several kinds of encouragement concerning the minor worker. The poll of the minors has shown that the majority of them (75.47%) have peculiar negative attitude to the duties in the family, namely, helping parents with the house, stating they do not have to do it.

Рассматривается социально-ролевая характеристика личности несовершеннолетнего преступника, осужденного к исправительным работам. Социально-ролевая характеристика личности несовершеннолетнего преступника предполагает исследование социальных позиций и ролей личности. Рассматриваемая характеристика личности позволяет увидеть личность преступника в реальной действительности, которая обусловлена выполнением этой личностью определенных социальных ролей.