threat
A threat is the credible announcement of an unpleasant measure against someone in order to influence the future course of action. If the threat of causing the death of a person is also referred to as a death threat .
sociology
Sociologically, the threat is a negative social sanction . The threat can, for example, induce people who are unwilling to behave in accordance with the generally recognized "rules of the game" of justice and a sense of morality to comply with them. Although the term threat generally has a negative connotation , the threat is therefore also important in the peaceful coexistence of people.
Law
In criminal law, a "threat" is the prospect of a future evil on whose occurrence the declarer claims to have an influence. German criminal law knows that threats are punishable if they are used as a means of coercion . The criminal offense of threat denotes the announcement of a crime directed against the victim or a person close to him, whereby crimes according to Section 12 (1) of the Criminal Code are those offenses which provide for a minimum sentence of one year imprisonment .
In the area of civil law, a declaration of intent made under the influence of an unlawful threat can be contested (Section 123 (1) BGB).
See also: Threat (§ 241 StGB) and Unlawful Threat
pedagogy
In everyday educational life, the threat has the character of a warning. The Educandus should be made aware of his misconduct through the threat and prompted to improve by making him aware of the consequences that occur if the behavior does not change in the direction of the educator. The threat can relate to areas of cognitive learning as well as areas of behavior. It can have a general unspecific character, which only expresses the unwillingness of the educator (verbally or facial expressions) or also contain the announcement of a specific punishment. Although the threat is described in educational science as a measure that should be placed in the run-up to the pedagogically understood punishments, there are already indications from great educators of past centuries that this method is not without problems. Montaigne, Fenelon and the pietist August Hermann Francke warned of the often underestimated consequences of frequent threats to children. Rousseau wrote in his memoirs of his governess, Miss Lambercier: "For a long time she let it be at mere threats, and this threat of punishment that was alien to me struck me as very terrible. But when it was used it found I made the experience less terrible than the fear of it .... "
rhetoric
In rhetoric , a threat ( Latin argumentum ad baculum , English appeal to force , appeal to power , appeal to bribery , argument to the cudgel, or appeal to the stick ) is an attempt to justify a conclusion with power or violence rather than reason . Instead of putting forward factual arguments, attempts are made to impose one's own opinion or desired behavior on another person by means of intimidation or even the use of force. The threat is thus an informal fallacy and a sham argument .
Quotes
"The threat is more powerful than the execution."
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Individual evidence
- ↑ In pedagogy, designates the student (= the person to be educated), cf. Lexicon online for psychology and education
- ^ Friedrich Koch : The wild child. The story of a failed dressage . Hamburg 1997, pages 59-62. ISBN 978-3434504108 .
- ^ Rousseau : The Confessions . Quoted from Friedrich Koch: The Wild Child. The story of a failed dressage . Hamburg 1997, page 58.
- ↑ Argumentum ad Baculum on lander.edu
- ↑ John Woods: Argumentum ad baculum. In: Argumentation. Vol. 12, No. 4 (November 1998), pp. 493-504, doi : 10.1023 / A: 1007779930624 ( Online ( Memento of November 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )).
