Blackmail
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blackmail-175-15931584
title:
Blackmail
text:
Blackmail is a criminal act of coercion using a threat. As a criminal offence, 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. By contrast, in the Commonwealth its definition is wider: for example the laws of England and Wales and Northern Ireland state that: A person is guilty of blackmail if, wi
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Coercion based on threat of revealing information
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail
date created:
2003-05-20T08:21:48Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T14:45:18Z
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