This special course is the first course of lectures on the discipline "Criminal subculture" with a training and methodological complex. The special course is designed to teach at universities of culture at the faculties of law and legal protection of culture, primarily at cultural and legal specialization, as well as at other faculties of universities of culture. It is recommended for students of law and other faculties of universities of culture, law faculties of educational institutions that train specialists for the systems of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation, as well as citizens as a victimological manual.