Legal Expertise as a Tool of Countering Violent Extremism in the Web 2.0
https://doi.org/10.17803/2713-0533.2024.1.27.142-158
Abstract
The paper deals with the results of the study aimed to countermeasure violent extremism in Web 2.0. The paper focuses on the results of the research entitled “Russian Legal Concept of Media Security” and implemented within the framework of the “Priority-2030” Academic Strategic Leadership Program. The increased number of public crimes committed in the new media using telecommunications technologies makes the study relevant. The study is aimed to improve the understanding of current and future global media security challenges and to explain how to resist them based on legal expertise. Legal expertise is characterized as a tool that can contribute to raising the general level of legal culture and, in this regard, the authors highlight that availability of law and language knowledge is relevant in solving criminal law issues regarding implementation of basic rights and freedoms in the digital environment. The authors examine public relations in the field of education, family relations and youth policy related to those who share traditional morality and focus on countering a destructive ideological impact on children, adolescents, and the youth, carried out in order to neutralize inimical inculcation of spiritual values alien to Russian society. The authors scrutinized social networking, a combination of mini web pages, blogs and searchable communities, to detect signs of extremist propaganda shared via internet communication as a key challenge Russian society is facing nowadays. They elucidate the importance of undertaking effective measures to protect the population from harmful effect of destructive extremist ideology and its negative psychological impact. An interdisciplinary study of media security in the paradigm of criminal law sciences was conducted on the basis of legal expertise — a comprehensive criminalistic, criminology, forensic, psychological and linguistic approach to counteracting a destructive ideological impact on adolescents and neutralizing the mechanisms of implanting alien moral values. The authors have systematized threats to traditional Russian spiritual values and proposed to amend legislation and law enforcement practice to improve media security. Deep efforts should be made to encourage zero tolerance for extremist actions in the information sphere among people, to form their competence to ensure media security, including effective recourse to legal (or forensic) experts and authorized entities in case of violations of the law.
Keywords
legal expertise,
violent extremism,
law and language,
expert o pinion,
testimony,
forensic examination,
linguistic evidence
Supporting agencies: The research was carried out within the framework of the “Priority-2030” Strategic Academic Leadership Program.
About the Authors
E. I. Galyashina
Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena I. Galyashina, Dr. Sci. (Law), Dr. Sci. (Philology), Professor, Honorary Worker of Education of the Russian Federation, Head of the Criminalistics Department
Moscow
К. М. Bogatyrev
Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Konstantin M. Bogatyrev, Assistant, Criminalistics Department
Moscow
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Galyashina E.I., Bogatyrev К.М. Legal Expertise as a Tool of Countering Violent Extremism in the Web 2.0. Kutafin Law Review. 2024;11(1):142-158. https://doi.org/10.17803/2713-0533.2024.1.27.142-158
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