Concept in Definition ABC

The of the coercionIt is a very common practice in our society and it consists of the imposition of a punishment, legal or illegal, with the mission of modifying the conduct of a person in a certain situation. That is, it is intended that a person or a group change a decision or that they carry out this or that act, then, they are pressured through some method, which as we said could be legal or illegal, so that finally it does what you want.

The threat Harming someone physically is one of the most common forms of coercion and it falls within what we call illegal coercion, since we agree that no law threatens someone with killing him, hitting him, among other acts.
However, and beyond this, the threat is one of the most effective that exists when it comes to intimidating another and finally getting the threatened person to change their way of acting through it. to think or do what you want.

Consider an armed robbery, the thief points his gun at her victim and forces her to hand over all of her belongings. He tells her that if he doesn't he will shoot him with the gun. Naturally, both the weapon and the specific threat of irreparable harm make the victim agree to that request and end up handing over her personal belongings to the offender.

Coercion with a weapon or any other type of device is always more effective and ends up achieving the task.

And the coercion of a legal type is one that follows from precisely the very same normative in force in a state of right.
If a law says that if I kill someone I go to prison for so long it will cause many to dismiss that action because they will not want to be deprived of their Liberty not a second. That is, knowing that if I do this or that thing I will be punished, generates, in most of society, fear of committing such acts because they know that the full weight of the law will fall on them.