Author

Smirnov I.O., Ivanov R.S.

Title of article

PECULIARITIES OF CRIMINAL LEGAL COUNTERACTION TO TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS

Section

Section 4. Criminal Law

Issue, year

1 (43) 2018

Abstract

 large-scale terrorist actions require a fresh look at the problem of terrorism. Terrorism has become a real, serious threat to the stability and security of the social world. Terrorist attitudes and the organizational structure of terrorist organizations are changing, the use of new technologies is expanding, new weapons allowing to carry out the operations comparable to the military ones are being acquired. The prospect of using the most terrible types of weapons, as well as the means of influencing the information space and the human psyche, becomes real. The peculiarities of criminal legal counteraction to terrorist organizations are considered in the article. The main algorithm for recognizing the organization as a terrorist organization is revealed. The general criteria for recognizing a terrorist organization are: the possibility of committing terrorist acts against Russian institutions, enterprises and individuals by its members in order to destabilize the domestic political situation, as well as creating a threat to the security of Russia and its allies. The distinction between terrorism and extremism is underlined. The theory and judicial practice of the delineation of related criminal offence providing the liability for organized forms of terrorist and extremist activities are analyzed. The problem connected with the existence of competition of general and special rules concerning the liability for terrorist crimes is identified.

Keywords

terrorist organization; extremist organization; illegal armed formation; Islamic state; competition.

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