Extremism and terrorism in the educational environment as a threat to the criminological security of the education system

The article is devoted to an urgent problem – the analysis of extremist and terrorist manifestations in the field of education. Unfortunately, modern reality shows that the field of education remains extremely unprotected from various kinds of criminal threats, of paramount importance among which are the threats of terrorism and extremism. First of all, the author draws attention to two categories of citizens who are the main participants in educational relations: on the one hand, these are pedagogical and other workers in the field of education, and on the other – students. Judicial practice shows that both educational workers and students can become subjects of extremist and terrorist crimes. In substantiation of this thesis, the author analyzes and cites current judicial practice in this study.
Objective: based on official statistical data and previously conducted scientific research, to consider extremism and terrorism in the educational environment as an urgent threat to the criminological security of the education system.
Methods: the methodological basis of the research is expressed in the general dialectical method of scientific cognition, characterized by its universality. The research also uses methods of logical deduction, induction, cognitive methods, comparison, analysis, generalization and description.
Conclusions: having analyzed judicial and departmental criminal statistics reflecting the current state of extremist and terrorist crime in the educational environment, the author concludes that such types of crime, despite the preventive measures taken by the subjects of prevention, are still present in the education system. The author emphasizes that the fight against such phenomena is based, first of all, on timely and effective prevention. At the present stage of society's development, the goal of the state should not be to seek to bring as many citizens as possible to criminal responsibility for terrorism and extremism, but to form anti-extremist attitudes in society, to form an anti-terrorist ideology, including in the educational environment.

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