The relevance of work was dictated by the period and new unusual problems of children’s life and behaviour. One of them is constantly growing delinquency of children, which was often explained only by the problems of adolescence. Children’s delinquency is not only children’s or group problem. It is a problem of adults’ attitudes and relationships, based on these attitudes with a child, who enters all institutions, operating in the society, i.e. different training institutions (for example: school), family, as an institution, forming child’s life style and other educational institutions (law and order institutions and other). As the problem of children delinquency is complex social, pedagogical, cultural, then two cooperation groups can successfully perform prevention: school teachers and inspector groups specialists of juveniles affairs. Problem. The question is raised whether the traditional attitudes of teachers and policeman, when the children inclined to delinquency, are called criminals and whether it is a setback, preparing prevention programmes. The aim is to ground and empirically research teachers’ and policemen’ attitudes to children delinquency as the assumption of cooperation optimizing prevention of children delinquency. The research hypothesis was confirmed that the children inclined to delinquency are often devaluated as people, inappropriate to the family, society and other institutions. In society stereotypical attitudes to a child as a functional individual... [to full text]