Topical Issues of Terrorism Prevention Among Youth

Improving measures to prevent terrorist crimes among young people is one of the main directions of domestic policy in the Russian Federation. The introduction of extremism into the youth environment has become widespread and has dangerous consequences for the well-being of the country. With the development of technology and communications, terrorism has the potential to spread widely around the world. The development of mobile phones, the internet and social media has enabled terrorist organisations to communicate quickly and effectively, both within their own circles and as an opportunity for new ways to recruit young people. Modern means of communication, including the Internet, play a key role today in the process of finalizing the formation of extremism. It is the Internet that is becoming a kind of platform for uniting young people with similar interests and views on a particular issue. The purpose of the study lies in the factors of extremism emergence, analysis of measures taken by the legislator to prevent the development of terrorism and extremism among young people, development of proposals to prevent the spread of these phenomena among young people. The author proposes a set of measures to combat extremism which would be the basis for creation of the ways to optimize the mechanism of interaction between subjects of prevention of extremism among young people at the regional level.

terrorism, extremism, prevention, counteraction, youth environment