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Threatening or threatening behavior (or criminal threatening behavior) is the crime of intentionally or knowingly putting another person in fear of bodily injury. [ 3 ] Some of the more common types of threats forbidden by law are those made with an intent to obtain a monetary advantage or to compel a person to act against their will .
A threatening note that was left in the mailbox of Holyoke, Massachusetts Mayor Edwin A. Seibel in 1955.. A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people.
In New York State a person threatening another person with imminent injury without engaging in physical contact is called "menacing". A person who engages in that behavior is guilty of aggravated harassment in the second degree (a Class A misdemeanor; punishable with up to one year incarceration, probation for an extended time, and a permanent criminal record) when they threaten to cause ...
Blackmail is a criminal act of coercion using a threat.. As a criminal offense, blackmail is defined in various ways in common law jurisdictions. In the United States, blackmail is generally defined as a crime of information, involving a threat to do something that would cause a person to suffer embarrassment or financial loss. [1]
Famacide, defamation, or slander – the killing of another's reputation. Linguicide – intentionally causing the death of a language. Epistemicide – the systematic extermination of an entire knowledge system or intellectual heritage of a group, society or people. Mundicide – the genocide of an entire planet or similar celestial object.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is the foremost authority on threatened species, and treats threatened species not as a single category, but as a group of three categories, depending on the degree to which they are threatened: [2]: 8–11
Robinson made the threats because he wanted the company to pay him between $10,000 and $20,000 to cover the cost of relocating to a different city, the documents say.
A terroristic threat is a threat to commit a crime of violence or a threat to cause bodily injury to another person and terrorization as the result of the proscribed conduct. [1] Several U.S. states have enacted statutes which impose criminal liability for "terroristic threatening" or "making a terroristic threat." [2]