The notion of extortion It comes from the Latin extortion. This is called the Pressure that one individual exercises over another to force him to act in a certain way and, in this way, obtain an economic or other benefit.
Extortion can consist of threats , intimidation or aggressions with the purpose of bend the will or desire of the victim It's about a crime and, as such, he is punishable by law.
Due to its characteristics, extortion is part of the multi-offensive crimes because it attacks more than one legal good. It not only affects one property of the victims, but also their freedom and their physical integrity.
It is possible to recognize different aspects in extortion. At first, the victim is the intimidate and be the oblige to act in a way that is not what you want. Then the extorted, forced by the situation, performs the action required, achieving the extortioner a benefit thus.
Suppose a man go to your neighbour with a lover . Willing to take advantage of that discovery, he tells the neighbor that, if he doesn't start pay 1000 pesos monthly , he will tell his wife infidelity. This practice constitutes extortion.
In recent years, cases of sexual extortion , also called sextorsion . This crime is carried out by a person who has in his possession photos or videos of another subject who is naked or performing a sexual act. In exchange for not spreading the material on the Internet, it demands money , specifying extortion.
Extortion is a figure that is in the group of so-called seizure crimes , since it does not exist mood of profit, and also in the scam crimes , since it is necessary for the taxpayer to participate consistently in a business or legal act, or omit it. It is also correct to say that extortion is a crime of conditional threats , because the legal business is carried out after the active subject has a constraint on the liability.
The term comes into play here coercion, which is widely used in the legal and forensic fields, as well as blackmail, and therefore it is necessary to point out the similarities and differences between these two and extortion. First, we can say that all three are framed in a criminal typology that can lead to criminal sentences ranging from one to five years incarceration, if the authorities can prove them.
While these three crimes can be equally intolerable and harmful to those who suffer them, for legal purposes there are clear differences between them. In the case of coercion, a subject performs an act voluntarily but after having been bullied on the other, which usually entails the theft or theft of a good (whether movable or immovable) of a third party. It is important to underline that this action is considered "voluntary" but it is not equivalent to a crime planned and carried out with total freedom of decision, since there is a threat that drives it.
With respect to blackmail , it is a process carried out by a person to obtain benefits by threatening a third party to disseminate certain information or defame it. It is not easy to find clear differences between the three crimes, although extortion is the only one that can be plural, while coercion is usually direct, and blackmail is the least violent of the two, since it is usually consummated simply by using the word. The authorities should examine each case carefully to understand which of these crimes they face.
