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The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit through coercion. Extortion is commonly practiced by organized crime. In some jurisdictions, obtaining the benefit is not required to commit the offense. However, making a threat of violence which refers to a requirement of a payment of money or property to halt future violence is sufficient to commit the offense. Exaction refers not only to extortion or the demanding and obtaining of something through force, but additionally, in its formal definition, means the infliction of something, such as pain and suffering, or making somebody endure something unpleasant.
The term extortion is often used to refer to everyday situations where one person feels indebted against their will, to another, in order to receive an essential service or avoid legal consequences. Neither extortion nor blackmail requires a threat of a criminal act, such as violence, merely a threat used to elicit actions, money, or property from the object of the extortion. Such threats include the filing of reports (true or not) of criminal behaviour to the police or the revelation of damaging facts. Here, modern day societal phenomena like cyberbullying and threatening to expose compromising pictures are part of this category, although it is practiced by individuals or social media herds and does not always require a transaction of money or property.
Related Keywords: ransom, threat, hostage, cyberbullying, sextortion, unauthorized access, illicit act
Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit through coercion. Extortion is commonly practiced by organized crime. In some jurisdictions, obtaining the benefit is not required to commit the offense. However, making a threat of violence which refers to a requirement of a payment of money or property to halt future violence is sufficient to commit the offense. Exaction refers not only to extortion or the demanding and obtaining of something through force, but additionally, in its formal definition, means the infliction of something, such as pain and suffering, or making somebody endure something unpleasant.
The term extortion is often used to refer to everyday situations where one person feels indebted against their will, to another, in order to receive an essential service or avoid legal consequences. Neither extortion nor blackmail requires a threat of a criminal act, such as violence, merely a threat used to elicit actions, money, or property from the object of the extortion. Such threats include the filing of reports (true or not) of criminal behaviour to the police or the revelation of damaging facts. Here, modern day societal phenomena like cyberbullying and threatening to expose compromising pictures are part of this category, although it is practiced by individuals or social media herds and does not always require a transaction of money or property.
Related Keywords: ransom, threat, hostage, cyberbullying, sextortion, unauthorized access, illicit act