Intimidation

A threat is a credible announcement of an unpleasant action against someone in order to influence him in his future course of action.

Sociology

Sociologically, the threat is a negative social sanction. The threat may be, for example, people who are not willing to behave in accordance with the generally accepted rules of the game ' of justice and moral sentiment, yet cause to respect them. Although the concept of threat is generally negative connotations, the threat is therefore also an important role in the peaceful coexistence of man cometh.

Right

In the science of criminal law is a " threat " that purports to view points of a future evil to have on the occurrence of which explanatory influence. German criminal law knows a criminal offense to threat if it is used as a means of coercion. The offense of threat refers to the announcement of a directed against the victim or a person related to crime, with crime in accordance with § 12 Section 1 of the Criminal Code are those offenses which provide for a minimum sentence of one year imprisonment.

In the area of ​​civil law is that a declaration of intent, which was made ​​under the influence of an illegal threat, may be appealed ( § 123 BGB).

See also: threat ( § 241 StGB) and Unlawful threat

Education

In everyday teaching the threat has the character of a warning. The Educandus should be noted by the threat to his wrongdoing and asked for correction, by being made ​​aware of the consequences that would occur if the behavior does not change in the sense of the educator. The threat may relate to cognitive learning areas as well as on areas of behavior. You can have a general non-specific character, which only the displeasure of the educator (verbal or facial expressions ) expresses or also include the announcement of a specific punishment. Although the threat in educational science is referred to as a measure which was to settle in advance of the educational understood punishments, so there are already a great pedagogue of centuries past evidence that this method is not without problems. Montaigne Fenelon or the Pietist August Hermann Francke warned of the often underestimated consequences of frequent threat of the child. Rousseau wrote in his memoirs about his governess, Miss Lambercier. " Pretty long they let it go at the mere threat, and this threat of punishment, which was strange to me, I had pretty horrible before but when she arrived at the application, found I experience less terrible than the fear of it .... "

Quotes

" The threat is stronger than the execution. "