Abstract
The fight against crimes of a terrorist nature is a task of international importance. Modern penitentiary systems in various countries were not ready for effective work aimed at preventing international terrorist threat. Persons convicted of committing terrorist crimes are currently serving their sentences in non-specialized correctional institutions that do not involve targeted counter-terrorism preventive measures with convicts. On the contrary, representatives of Islamic terrorist organizations are actively using the prison environment to propagate pseudo-religious ideas that encourage terrorism. One of the few attempts to prevent Islamist terrorism among people suspected or convicted of terrorist crimes was made by the US leadership at the beginning of the XXI century. The American penitentiary experience shows that the use of purely punitive methods of correcting a criminal terrorist does not guarantee the convict’s refusal to carry out terrorist activities. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a model of a special type of penitentiary institution aimed at providing an effective prevention of terrorist activity and suppressing the recruitment of new participants to terrorist organizations. The main preventive measures to use in this type of correctional institution should be the separate maintenance of convicts representatives of various social groups, as well as educational and religious activities explaining the true social values observed both by Islam and other world religions.
Highlights
The high public danger of crimes of a terrorist nature, as well as of the perpetrators of these crimes, is officially recognized both at the level of national legislation of most countries of the international community, and the norms of international law governing the fight against terrorist activity
The study showed that the Russian criminal law, as well as the criminal executive law of many states does not provide for the creation and functioning of a specialized penitentiary institution to correct criminals-terrorists who have committed crimes for various, including religious, motives
The absence of a specialized correctional institution, as well as special social and religious-educational means of working with this category of convicts, promotes the spread of radical ideas of Islamist terrorism and involvement of new participants from among those previously held in places of detention in the activities of terrorist organizations
Summary
The high public danger of crimes of a terrorist nature, as well as of the perpetrators of these crimes, is officially recognized both at the level of national legislation of most countries of the international community, and the norms of international law governing the fight against terrorist activity. For individual convicts, this is the only option to continue life after serving the sentence, since it is impossible for them to quit the “criminal society”. The identity of the terrorist criminal is characterized by weak social ties and susceptibility to influence by people who impose radical religious ideas about terror as the only means of achieving justice in society All this indicates the need for an individual approach in educational work with representatives of this category of convicts in the process of serving their criminal punishment. The choice of the type of correctional institution and formation of a set of special means of penitentiary influence on the convict is of absolute importance for prevention of terrorist activity
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