Contemporary Trends in Juvenile Crime Affecting the Organization of operational-Search Counteraction to Neo-Nazi and Other Extremist Organizations

The article examines pressing issues in organizing operational and investigative counteraction to the activities of neo‑Nazi and other extremist organizations, viewed through the lens of how socio‑criminological trends in juvenile delinquency impact law enforcement efforts in this area. The aim of the work is to acquire new scientific knowledge and generalizations necessary for the subsequent development of regulatory, organizational, and technological measures in the field of operational and investigative counteraction to neo‑Nazi formations (organizations, communities). As part of its achievement, the task was to identify both obvious and hidden trends in the transformation of juvenile delinquency, caused by the activation of external and internal destructive forces, including those supervised by the special services of unfriendly states. Attention is focused on the similarity of the goals of activity and the methods of achieving them by various extremist communities and organizations, into whose orbit of activity minors are actively drawn with the help of information and behavioral technologies. The nature and degree of influence of these trends on the effectiveness and specifics of the activities of operational search agencies to identify and neutralize neo‑Nazi and other extremist organizations are analyzed. Research methodology: methods of generalization, analysis, synthesis, analogy, system‑structural, hypothetical, historical‑logical, comparative‑legal, statistical and formal‑legal methods. As a result of the conducted research, the authors summarize that the socio‑criminological problematic trends of juvenile delinquency considered in the complex, which are the main objects of recruitment actions by neo‑Nazis, clearly show the insufficient level of organization of operational investigative counteraction to this negative social phenomenon. The findings should be taken into account when developing further regulatory, organizational and technological measures to improve the efficiency of the operational search authorities in this area.