AUE: Criminalization of youth and moral panic. Gromov D.V.

In August 2020, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the movement known in the media under the name "AUE", an extremist organization. In recent years, with this mysterious abbreviation, which can be deciphered, for example, as a “prisoner’s way” or “prison criminal unity”, various information processes have been connected - it was they who became the subject of the study of anthropologist Dmitry Gromov. In his book, the scientist sets the task to show the mechanisms with which the Aue's phenomenon has become such a noticeable media event.

as a word that appeared in the information space in 2014-2022, has turned into one of the main brands of fear of crime? What factors have influenced the construction of this brand? And is it worth a real problem of criminalization of youth? The author seeks to find answers to these questions, relying on the concept of moral panic.

Dmitry Gromov - Anthropologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, leading researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.