Columbine as a type of youth destructivism

Objective: to analyze the reasons for senior schoolchildren’s interest destructive social groups dedicated challenges, criminal culture, weapons, erotic and sex, dangerous leisure, death suicide, mass killings violence, drugs; describe hierarchy of interests life values adolescents based on research results (questionnaire survey schoolchildren multidimensional content analysis VKontakte network). Methods: general scientific (analysis, system-structural approach object, comparative-legal method) specific methods schoolchildren, N = 589, conducted in April 2021, network, 314,708 fragments). Results: various networks were analyzed. The determinants joining are factors such as degree trust relationships with parents, plans future, amount time spent daily Internet, tendency hedonism everyday life. involving ideology Columbine movement revealed. Scientific novelty : two users sites propagating identified: core (characterized by abundance negative moods, these network potentially capable committing terrorist acts) periphery an increased extreme leisure activities). representatives is described; assumptions made about ways flow from back. study showed that breeding ground other youth movements who do not have their aimed at enjoying here now, clear prefer virtual communication real one. Practical significance materials article can be useful federal regional authorities implementing aspects policy, preventing sociopathic behavior youth, ensuring safety educational institutions, well scientists researching movements.