Kuriukin A.N. Ethnic conflicts: an experience of social and criminological characteristic. Sociopolitical sciences, 2019, Issue 4, pp. 23-29.

Abstract

The issue of research on ethnonational conflicts continues to attract serious attention from representatives of various sciences and its branches, which is due to objective factors. Studies of this phenomenon are conducted from a variety of positions, but the most active representatives of the social and legal sciences. Within these branches of world science, two disciplines stand out, leading to research in the scope of ethnic conflict, the most consistently this is sociology and criminology. It is these sciences that seek to generalize the broadest material, right up to Big Data, presenting the results of their analysis in relation to the issues of the genesis, nature and prediction of ethno-national conflicts in a particular society or in the international arena. Especially, the relevance of such research is justified in relation to Russia, which is a multinational country. At the same time, ethnic conflict is very difficult to describe and analyze as a subject that requires a special approach. That's why, the author is trying to give a complex description of the ethnonational conflict, in the approach that combines sociological and criminological and makes an attempt to apply it in the context of its social anatomy, criminological dimension, the current state of ethnic conflict in Russian society and the likely prospects for its evolution. The article can be used to improve the state ethno-national policy of the Russian Federation. Significantly, due to the introduction of a wide range of new sources, it expands the boundaries of theoretical and applied knowledge of such sciences and academic disciplines as Ethnopolitology, Ethnosociology, Criminology, Conflictology, etc. Therefore, the materials presented present an objective interest for students, graduate students, teachers, researchers and others Who is interested in the current socio-political development of Russia.