Correlation of juvenile criminality and youth extremism

Introduction: this article is devoted to the study of the relationship between criminogenicity of juveniles and manifestations of extremism in the youth. Thus, youth extremism is proposed to be considered in the spectrum of characteristics of a criminological phenomenon closely adjacent to juvenile delinquency. Materials and Methods: the methodological basis of this article was the universal dialectic method of cognition of the features and specifics of youth extremism. The general scientific methods of cognition were applied: the historical-legal method, the method of differentiation, generalization, comparison, system-structural analysis, and the private scientific methods of cognition represented by the analysis of criminal and judicial statistics, the study of documents (criminal case materials). Result: the authors state that the emergence of youth extremism lies in the complex processes of determination of juvenile delinquency, which are based on the extremes of consciousness of certain layers of young people, since it is the juveniles who are "infected" by extremist ideas due to their extreme consciousness. This age group is the object of propaganda influence and the "personnel reserve" of extremist organizations and extremist actions. Discussion and Conclusions: the authors of the article come to the conclusion that the merging of preferences for Internet technologies, communication in the online space, and even dependence on them of juveniles is a circumstance that ensures the development of the ideology of extremism in general.