Criminological features of crimes of a terrorist nature and extremist crimes in the PRC

Abstract

Terrorist crimes and extremist crimes have created a huge threat to state security, territorial integrity, social stability, economic development and social harmony in China. Persons who commit violent terrorist crimes have the following characteristics: a low level of culture, a decrease in age, an increase in the number of female participants, a low-level profession. The organizational features of violent terrorist crimes are manifested in the following: terrorist attacks by "lone wolves", groups with a free structure and strict organization, a clear trend in the development of the transnational nature of terrorist organizations. Violent terrorist crimes in China, from the point of view of the mode of action, have the following classic features: an explicit political goal, a motive for religious heresy or national enmity, a variety of ways and cruelty of methods of carrying out terrorists of violent terrorist acts. In the terrorist attacks that took place, almost all the criminals fell under the influence of the ideas of violent terrorism before committing the terrorist attack.