Russian Federation
Introduction. The modern educational environment is increasingly becoming the target and space for various criminal threats, which are evolving and acquiring new forms due to digitalization and transformation of social relations. Researchers and legislators traditionally focused on economic risks, but today challenges related to physical, psychological and information security are coming to the fore. These include armed attacks on educational institutions, such as school shootings, and the systematic recruitment of young people into extremist online communities. These complex challenges require a systemic approach for preventing such threats. Materials and Methods. The methodological basis of the study was a systematic and structural-functional analysis, which made it possible to classify threats by the nature of their manifestation. The work also uses the method of analyzing scientific literature on criminology, pedagogy and psychology. The Results of the Study. The study identified and analyzed four interrelated vectors of criminological security:1. Anti-criminal Security: This identified a persistent problem with juvenile delinquency. The true picture is distorted by the high latency and low detection rate of criminal offences committed by adolescents, with particular attention paid to school shootings as an extreme form of violence. Socioeconomic factors play a role in this phenomenon.2. Anti-Extremist Security: The activities of youth extreme groups (using AUE as an example), pose a systemic threat. This is fueled by criminalization and social unemployment among adolescents.3. Digital Security (Information Security on the Internet): The internet poses dual threats: victimization (cyberbullying, child fraud, suicidal influence) and involvement in cybercrimes, exacerbated by family education crisis.4. Anti-Suicide Safety: A multi-level system of prevention (state, groups, individuals) is needed to counter suicide risks, especially for minors vulnerable to online communities' influence. Findings and Conclusions. Ensuring the criminological security of the educational environment requires transitioning from disparate measures towards an integrated system. Key conclusions include the need to reduce juvenile delinquency to a socially acceptable level by implementing state and regional programs aimed at crime prevention in society, the importance of fighting extremism by providing free access to positive leisure activities for teenagers and young people, the priority of promoting digital literacy over prohibitive measures online, and the need for suicide prevention among young people. Implementing these measures will allow us to create an effective model to protect participants in educational relationships from various criminal threats.
digital security, anti-criminal security, anti-extremist security, anti-suicidal security, educational environment, juvenile delinquency, schoolshooting, youth extremism, cyberbullying
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