Criminal and legal impact on the infrastructure of terrorism in the context of the theory of early crime prevention

The «preventive turn» in the strategy of criminal and legal counteraction to terrorism, which took place on a boundary of the 20th and 21st centuries, is followed by a reorientation of counter-terrorism measures towards preventive work, a shift in the vector of criminal and legal impact in the direction of acts that determine terrorist activity, i.e., forming the infrastructure of terrorism. In the sphere of criminal lawmaking, the most noticeable result of the preventive «shift» was the new normative grounds for criminal liability for financing and other logistical support for terrorism, recruiting members of terrorist groups, promoting terrorism and other acts that create opportunities and conditions for committing terrorist attacks. As a result, criminal and legal impact began to be perceived not only and not so much as an instrument of response to an already committed terrorist act, but as a leading measure for preventing terrorism. The article proves that the new vector of anti-terrorist criminal policy is based on the postulates of the concept of early criminal and legal prevention of crime; the main directions of early preventive criminal and legal influence on deeds that acting as the infrastructure of terrorism are considered.