The starting point of this contribution are hybrid forms of communalisation and individual and collective identity development among young people raised in Germany from families stigmatised for several years as “criminal clans” with a Lebanese immigration history and from marginalised Bulgarian or Romanian migrant families, who are labelled as Romn*ja. From an interdisciplinary and multiprofessional perspective, an analytical classification of deviant (offensive or punishable behaviour) of young men from such families - as an expression of an ‘inappropriate’ search for social recognition and new self-efficacy experiences - is made in reference to historically successful forms of youth cultural resistance against prevailing normative expectations and the reinforcement of this practice through historically and currently mediated experiences of social exclusion. The outlook focuses on the central, albeit ambivalent, importance of linguistic-cultural bridge builders from the families for sustainable crime prevention. The theoretical argumentation is illustrated by examples from the practice of the confrontation of those affected with law enforcement in Essen and Duisburg.