![]() Bribery typically refers to the act of bribing or the exchange itself. What’s the difference between bribery and extortion? Extortion is often the act of requiring a bribe from someone, or forcing someone to provide money or favors in some other corrupt way. Extortion has often been compared with bribery, since both crimes can be defined as an unlawful conversion of properties and goods belonging to someone else for. It’s especially used in the context of politics to criticize politicians for using methods that are similar to or that some consider to be extortion. The word is also often used in a more general way. Bribery involves exchanging money or other valuables in order to get one’s work done. However, there is a big difference between bribery and blackmail. ![]() All of these kinds of extortion are serious crimes that can carry a lengthy prison sentence. Key Difference Bribery vs Blackmail Bribery and blackmail are two legal offences that involve an exchange of money. Threatening to beat up a reporter if he writes a bad story about you is also extortion, but it is not blackmail. In both cases, you are trying to forcefully take or get something from someone. Blackmail, the threat of revealing sensitive information, is one form of extortion. What is the difference between ‘blackmail’ and ‘extortion’ The two words have a negative connotation. Sometimes, people extort money or favors from other people by abusing their power or authority. Extortion is forcing someone to do something through the use of an illegal threat. ![]() Blackmail is a specific type of extortion. Extortion can happen in a lot of different ways, such as through intimidation and threats like these or through violence. ![]() When a mobster walks into a shop and says, “Nice place you got here-it would be a shame if something happened to it,” they’re threatening to make bad things (destruction and violence) happen unless you pay them not to do those bad things. Looking at the criminal law directly, Second Degree Coercion, New York Penal Law 135.60, closely mimics the Grand Larceny Extortion statute of New York Penal Law 155.05(2)(e). Extortion and blackmail are two very similar offences, which are often confused with each other. It ultimately comes from the Latin extortus, meaning “wrenched out,” from the verb extorquēre, “to wrest away,” from torquēre, “to twist.” The difference between these crimes may be subtle, but the consequences are great. The first records of the word extortion come from the 1200s. ![]()
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