Abstract. This paper argues that post-socialist crimogenic activity in Lithuania is perceived as relatively stable and that traditional criminality is still the main focus of legislative and policing interest. We argue that criminality continues to undergo significant change articulated through, inter alia, the high rate of expressive crimes that are being committed by an expanding group of displaced rural and urban society, marginalized youth. As a result of preliminary research and interviews conducted in Lithuania the authors are of the view that there is a transformation of criminality currently taking place by a significant cohort of young males who have expressed pathologies symptomatic with disaffection, self-abuse and social regression. New forms of entrenched poverty unknown during the socialist era such as vagabonds and homelessness, including homeless youth, has now developed and is associated with its apparently inevitable concomitant increased petty criminality The manifestation of this emergent criminality is not restricted geographically and early indications are that there is a growing marginalization taking place throughout the entire country that is currently being addressed by only a minority of social institutions.