INTERNATIONAL PRACTICES OF COMBATING EXTREMISM: IS EFFECTIVE EXTREMISM PREVENTION POSSIBLE?
Extremism in the modern world has gone beyond individual states and represents a global threat to the security of the entire world community. To reduce the rate of radicalization of the society and the eﬀective prevention of extremism, it is necessary to combine not only the eﬀorts of law enforcement agencies and the prevention system but also the scientiﬁc schools of various countries. On the basis of the analysis of legislation, scientiﬁc literature and researches by scientists from the United States of America, the European Union, and the Russian Federation, common causes for all countries' increase in extremist oﬀenses are identiﬁed. Criminological features of a personality of an extremist across the world, radicalization, and vulnerabilities of those frequently subject to be recruited are being established. The study substantiates the need to strengthen the role of educational institutions of all countries in the early prevention of extremism and formulates proposals for improving the mechanisms for identifying potential extremists and radical citizens.The subject of the study is the legal norms governing countering extremist activities, as well as the theoretical, practical, organizational and legal foundations for the prevention of extremism among young people. The purpose of the study is to identify the problems of legal regulation in the ﬁeld of countering extremism, as well as the development of practical recommendations aimed at improving the current legislation in the area under study. The methodological basis of the study consists of the dialectical materialist method of scientiﬁc knowledge of objective reality, as well as general scientiﬁc and particular methods based on it: comparative legal, formal legal, system-structural, historical method, problem-chronological.The scientiﬁc novelty of the study is determined by the fact that the authors substantiate the need for introducing mechanisms for the early detection of oﬀenses of an extremistorientation and formulate proposals for their implementation. Despite the fact that the age of a signiﬁcant part of potential extremists is known, most of which are in educational institutions, and there are all mechanisms for preventive inﬂuence, there is no eﬀective mechanism for early detection of such persons in the world legislative practice.