Coercion involves compelling a party to act in an involuntary manner by the use of threats, including threats to use force against that party.[need quotation...

Reproductive coercion (also called coerced reproduction, reproductive control or reproductive abuse) is a collection of behaviors that interfere with decision-making...

Look up coercion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Coercion is the practice of compelling a person to behave in an involuntary way. Coercion may also...

Religious coercion may refer to Blue laws, when enforcing religious standards Forced conversion Some aspects of state religion This disambiguation page...

A Coercion Act was an Act of Parliament that gave a legal basis for increased state powers to suppress popular discontent and disorder. The label was applied...

In linguistics, coercion is a term applied to a process of reinterpretation triggered by a mismatch between the semantic properties of a selector and the...

Sexual coercion among animals is the use of violence, threats, harassment, and other tactics to help them forcefully copulate. Such behavior has been compared...

Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence). A person who commits espionage...

person without their consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority, or against a person who is incapable of giving valid...

In the context of a doctor–patient relationship, informal coercion is a social process where a healthcare profession tries to make a patient adhere to...

Nuclear blackmail is a form of nuclear strategy in which one of states uses the threat of use of nuclear weapons to force an adversary to perform some...

Biderman's Chart of Coercion, also called Biderman's Principles, is a table developed by sociologist Albert Biderman in 1957 to illustrate the methods...

are often covered by coercion statutes. For instance, the coercion statute in Alaska says: A person commits the crime of coercion if the person compels...

inspired by God. Augustine of Hippo had to deal with issues of violence and coercion throughout his entire career due largely to the Donatist-Catholic conflict...

A coercion castle (German: Zwingburg) or coercive castle was a heavily fortified, medieval castle built to dominate the surrounding land. Such castles...

Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992 is a 1990 book by the American political scientist Charles Tilly. The central theme of the book is...

The New York divorce coercion gang was a Haredi Jewish group who kidnapped, and in some cases tortured, Jewish men in the New York metropolitan area to...

In international relations, coercion refers to the imposition of costs by a state on other states and non-state actors to prevent them from taking an action...

Marital coercion was a defence to most crimes under English criminal law and under the criminal law of Northern Ireland. It is similar to duress. It was...

In computer science, type conversion, type casting, type coercion, and type juggling are different ways of changing an expression from one data type to...

unwanted sexual act—or attempt to obtain a sexual act through violence or coercion—or an act directed against a person's sexuality without their consent,...

this context, thought reform was possible without violence or physical coercion. He also pointed out that in their efforts against terrorism, Western governments...

self-sustaining like any other valuable service, and that it can be supplied without coercion by the free market much more effectively and efficiently than by a government...

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher...

high school years. Finally, Kennedy formulated what is now known as the coercion test in answering the argument that participation in the prayer was voluntary:...

and other forms of sexual violence: The coercion-based model "requires that the sexual act was done by coercion, violence, physical force or threat of...

A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion is a 2000 book by the biologist Randy Thornhill and the anthropologist Craig T. Palmer,...

activity" without abuse or exploitation of "trust, power or authority", coercion or threats. Consent can also be revoked at any moment. Since the late 1990s...

A Happy Coercion is a 1914 American silent short comedy film based on a story by Theodosia Harris. The film stars Perry Banks, William Bertram, Jacques...

their study "reported multiple instances of coercion" and that "there are published references to coercion in fields beyond the social sciences." The business...