Mediation in juvenile cases in Poland is a subsidiary measure vis-à-vis judicial settlement of legal conflicts. It still requires further elaboration in legal provisions and more research to indicate factors on which its effectiveness depends. A diagnosis represents a basic step towards taking up educational measures with respect to young people. Therefore, the purpose of the author’s own research was to determine the level of compensation expected by the juveniles, assuming that neutralizing techniques and a high degree of injustice in their subjective perception make them the victims, resulting in their reluctance to accept liability for acts inconsistent with legal norms. The research participants were juveniles in whose the supervision of a probation officer was requested by courts and pupils from public schools that did not present behavioural problems. The survey used the Compensation Expectation Scale developed by Agnieszka Lewicka-Zelent.