Peculiarities of Recruiting Women into Terrorist Groups on the Territory of the Russian Federation

Terrorist groups in the modern world actively use the existing crisis conditions for a constant update of their groups membership. The human resource is of fundamental importance for the functioning of these criminal organizations, in connection with which the latter are constantly improving the means and methods of involving various persons in illegal activities. In this context, women should be singled out as the most vulnerable category of the population, who at any age are much more susceptible to external influences due to the psycho-emotional characteristics of their personality. Taking into account the existing growth of offences and crimes of a terrorist nature, it seems necessary to study in more detail the issues related to the recruitment of this category of the population. The purpose of writing this work is to identify the existing features of the recruitment of women into terrorist groups on the territory of the Russian Federation. The author comes to the conclusion that the processes of informatization and digitalization have a significant impact, under the influence of which the Internet environment is the main platform for searching and further influencing the above-mentioned category of people. Women with protest behavior, who actively express their positions in various Internet resources are of particular interest to recruiters. Attention is focused on the fact that in the Russian Federation the most widespread involvement of women in terrorist activities is carried out in the republics of the North Caucasus, where religion and ethnic traditions have a serious impact on the worldview. In this context, a constant study of existing trends in the recruitment of women into terrorist groups and active explanatory work in relation to emerging threats is required.

terrorism, terrorist crimes, spreading the ideology of terrorism, recruitment of women into terrorist groups, counter-terrorism activities