The subject areas of the article scientific materials are the functional characteristics of the value and motivation of individual adolescents and youth with deviant behavior. Identification of these characteristics is the purpose of a study carried out by the author. The empirical research tools are the methods of «Diagnostics system of value orientations of personality» by E. B. Fantalova and «Polimotivational trends in diagnostics of ego-conception of personality» by S. M. Petrova. The study results suggest specificity of value-semantic and motivational formations deviant adolescents and young people have, as manifested in the integrative indicators of understanding of the values and motives of self-realization; in the structure of the humanitarian component of value-semantic system; on the level of awareness of personal sense of spiritual values. The study obtained data allow us to identify systemic linkages intraindividual factors in the genesis of the deviant behavior of the individual, which provides an opportunity to improve the educational, corrective and advisory practices.