Monitoring extremist sentiments as a diagnostic and preventive toolkit of anti-extremist activities (experience in the Kemerovo region)

Abstract

The paper demonstrates the potentials of the diagnostic and preventive method used by the author when building a program for informational and prevention counteraction against extremism. The quantitative values for each “extremist” indicators, including gender aspects, are shown on the example of some results that were obtained according to the survey data (November 2018). The correlation coefficients between those indicators which reflect the level of systematicity of extremist ideas, reflected in the mass consciousness of young students, are also provided and discussed in the paper.