Informational Determinants of Violence Against Person and the Preventive Function of Law

Abstract

The paper analyzes the problems of legal regulation of the circulation of information justifying violence against person. The urgency of the problem and the need to resolve it as a matter of priority are substantiated. Special attention is paid to the conceptual apparatus used by the legislator and issues of responsibility. There is an unjustified variety of terms contained in relevant normative legal acts («appeals», «propaganda», «justification», «advocating», «incitement»), as well as the lack of a uniform understanding of violence in law enforcement practice. The author critically analyzes the sociocentrism of the legislator’s approach to responsibility for the propaganda of violence, as a result of which the security of the individual seems to the law enforcement officer to be less significant in comparison with the security of a social group. The author compares domestic and foreign regulation of the considered sphere of public relations. The conclusion is made about the need for a systematic approach to solve the problem, inter-sectoral improvement of Russian legislation. Such improvement should result in recognition of the propaganda of violence against person as no less dangerous than the propaganda of politically, ideologically and religiously motivated violence.