Forbes Senior Contributor Billy Bambrough Master of Tech Journalism.pdf
kanishka.pptx
1. What is Coercion ?
• Coercive power is defined as harsh power, as
the capacity to detect and sanction unlawful
behaviour.
• It is an ability that allows an authority figure
to influence another individual to deliver a
result by using fear and threats as incentive.
2. Coercive behaviour is an act or a
pattern of acts of assault, threats ,
humiliation and intimidation or
another abuse that is used to harm,
punish or frighten their victim.
Coercion is the committing to commit, any
act forbidden by the Indian penal code (45
of 1860) or the unlawful detaining or
threating to detain any property to the
prejudice of any person whatever, with the
intention of causing any person to enter into
an agreement.