Trends in digital terrorism and extremism during the COVID-19 pandemic

Purpose: to identify criminologically significant factors of the consequences of COVID-19 and the processes of digitalization of society affecting the current state of terrorism and extremism. Methods: the methodological basis of the study is the fundamental criminology provisions on crime and its determinants, the conceptual requirements of scientific analysis. The most important principles of the dialectical method of cognition are observed: objectivity, comprehensiveness, concreteness, historicism. The study uses general scientific (systemic, logical, analysis and synthesis) and specific scientific (formal-logical, structural analysis, comparative) methods. Results: the correlation of the processes caused by the digitization of society and the spread of COVID-19 with changes in the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of terrorism and extremism is established.