This study is based on an evaluation of 165 children in Ankara, who are driven to crime. In this context, the study covers the following: socio-demographic characteristics of these children and their families, criminal records of them and their families, types of crimes they are driven to, and types of protective and supportive measures taken for them. The crime reports of the children’s families reveal that 33.3% of the mothers and 47.3% of the fathers have been involved in a crime before. An examination of the siblings’ being pushed to crime shows that 34.5% of them have been involved in a crime act at least once. Thus, it may be argued that there is a culture of crime in the majority of the families and that children get involved in crime through taking their family members as role models. It is apparent that 92.7% of the children has been involved in crime and thus has repeated this act. It appears that they are involved in the following crimes: theft (26.1%), battle (22.4%), malicious injury (17.5%), using, carrying and trafficking of drugs (6.6%), and threat-insult (4.8%). When asked how they have got the idea of being involved in a crime, 65% state that they see it in the close environment. And 44% answer as the following: ignorance, aggressiveness, dispute, and just on my own. Only some small number children (3.5%) state that they have witnessed the crime in their families and relatives. This addresses the fact that, although they take their families as role models, they protect them at the same time. The number of the children who received protective and supportive measure orders within the scope of the Child Protection Act (no. 5395) is 13 (7.8%). Therefore, it is apparent that the measure orders given to these children are limited. The study ends up with various suggestions as to these findings.