Question

Difference between criminal intimidation and extortion

Answer 1

A person commits criminal in­timidation if he (1) threatens another with any injury (a) to his person, reputation or property, or (b) to the person or reputation of any one in whom that person is interested, or (2) with intent (a) to cause alarm to that person, or (b) to cause that person to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which that person is legally entitled to do, as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat. (S. 503.) (Two years’ imprisonment, fine or both).
Criminal intimida­tion is almost analogous to extortion. In extortion, the immediate purpose is obtaining any property or valuable security; in criminal intimidation, the immediate purpose is to induce the person threatened to do an act which he is not legally bound to do or to abstain from doing an act which he is legally entitled to do.

Extortion is committed when the offender is present and the victim is through fear of any injury induced to deliver any property or valuable security; in criminal intimidation the threat need not produce the effect aimed at nor need it be addressed directly to the person intended to be influenced.