The article presents a theoretical analysis of the problem of deviant behavior at teenage age. The author improves and expands the idea of the system of attachment as a determinant of mechanisms of self-control in teenagers demonstrating a tendency to deviant victimhood. It is noted that at present, the interest to the problem of victimhood of the personality, especially, deviant victimhood, is extremely high. It is explained by the need to reconsider the concept of the norm and expand the interpretation of the concept of the victim. The solution of the designated problem must include prevention of negative variants of deviant behavior from their possible causes and predisposition, in particular victimhood. The author reveals that adolescents demonstrating a tendency to deviant victimhood show a number of irrational attitudes, which are of the nature of absolute prescription. This circumstance presupposes the emergence of a syndrome of miscommunication in a developing personality and suggests a study of deviant actions and victimization in general. The external factors of deviant victimhood are thought to include the characteristics of the implementation of the leading activity and the social situation of adolescent development. Communication with peers is a dominant need, and the qualitative content of new psychological formations of the individual depends on the characteristics of its implementation. Thus, the position in the system of intra-family relations and the system of interpersonal interaction determines the foundation of the social status and activity of the personality of the adolescent. Based on these provisions, the author conducted an empirical study aimed at studying the relationship between the characteristics of the leading activity and the social situation of development in adolescence and the characteristics of victim behavior. The article presents the results of an empirical study, the characteristics of relationships, such as adolescent attachment, and the characteristics of the victim's actual behavior.