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Concept, Attributes and Approaches to the Study of Armed Attacks in Educational Institutions

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The article highlights the criminologically relevant attributes of armed attacks in educational institutions on the basis of scientific publications. The article distinguishes between acts of school-shooting and terrorism. The determinants of juvenile violence growth, criminalization level of educational environment in general, negative factors of school educational process, deformation of educational influence system, absence of crime prevention and counteraction distinctive system in Russian educational institutions, availability of depressive-aggressive and near-suicidal content on the Internet are studied. An analysis is made of the research areas on school-shooting in foreign criminology, among which those relevant to the study of school-shooting in Russia are highlighted. We define the school-shooting essence as a social phenomenon; social background of juvenile's realization of an extreme aggression form in the limits of educational organizations; the correlation between the individual adolescent's predisposition to the realization of violence and the external social situation of involving in the aggressive activity is revealed. We established the criminogenic significance for the subsequent cases of such informational coverage school-shooting events and the role of other preconditions for the manifestation of extreme violence forms among minors as well as the ways to reduce the opportunities of teenagers' involvement in the realization of extreme forms of aggression at the level of the educational institution.

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Мамонтова Э.А. Швыркин А.А. Понятие, признаки и подходы к исследованию вооруженных нападений в образовательных учреждениях // Право: история и современность. 2024. Т. 8, № 3. С. 365 – 379. doi: 10.17277/pravo.2024.03. pp.365-379