Criminogenic Factors Affecting the Results of the Counterterrorism in the Territory of the North Caucasian Federal District

Based on the analysis of the results of the activities of the law enforcement agencies of the North Caucasus Federal District, the article highlights the criminogenic factors affecting the results of the counterterrorism. The purpose of the study is to establish and identify such factors that have or are capable of having a negative impact on the state of countering terrorism in the region. Conclusions. As a result of the study, the authors come to the conclusion that the following factors can be identified as threat-forming factors: an increase in the level of radicalization of society; the presence of secret cells of international terrorist and religious-extremist organizations unknown to law enforcement agencies operating on the territory of the Russian Federation; an increase in the number of lone terrorists who, under the influence of ideologues of international terrorist organizations, carried out "autonomous jihad"; the return to the Russian Federation of citizens who took part in hostilities on the territory of the Middle East region on the side of international terrorist organizations; active recruiting activities to replenish the ranks of international terrorist organizations with residents of the North Caucasian region, including those serving sentences in places of deprivation of liberty for ordinary crimes; prepared stopping places, caches with supplies of weapons, ammunition and other means of terror conserved by militants; supporters of international religious extremist organizations, providing aiding assistance to their members, including illegal storage of ammunition and means of terror in religious institutions, as well as spreading radical religious views among the population. The authors conclude that with the intensification of operational and preventive measures by law enforcement agencies, further actions of terrorist groups and lone terrorists will be carried out in the regime of their increased secrecy. The object of illegal intentions of members of illegal armed formations may be registration-barrage systems and points of deployment of units of law enforcement agencies.

law enforcement agencies, counteraction, terrorism, the North Caucasus, criminogenic factors