How to deal with verbal threats?

You can call the police and handle it. If the perpetrator intimidates others with words, and the circumstances are bad and disturb social order, it constitutes a crime of stirring up trouble and is sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance. Those who repeatedly gather people to intimidate and seriously disturb social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years and may also be fined. Those who do not meet the above conditions do not constitute a crime and will not be sentenced. Specifically, it shall be detained for less than five days or fined less than five hundred yuan.

Legal analysis

When someone threatened, he chose to call the police. This alarm behavior is recorded for the first time. If the other party has threatened words, but has not actually committed the crime, the threatened person may first file a case with the public security organ. Once the threatening person really commits any illegal acts, the police will give priority to investigating this person, that is, marking the other party in advance. It is illegal to verbally threaten the personal safety of others. If it is insulting or intimidating others, if the circumstances are bad, it is suspected of provoking trouble. The constitutive requirements of the crime of stirring up trouble include: the subject of this crime is the general subject, and any natural person who has reached the age of 16 and has the ability of criminal responsibility can constitute this crime. The subjective elements of the crime of stirring up trouble can only be constituted by subjective intention. That is, openly flouting national laws and social morality. Its motive is to seek spiritual stimulation and fill spiritual emptiness through the activities of seeking trouble, and the object of this crime is public order. The so-called public order includes the order of public places and the same rules that people should abide by in their lives. The crime of stirring up trouble mostly occurs in public places, and some of it occurs in remote and hidden places, which often causes damage to citizens' personal, personality or public and private property. The crime of picking quarrels and stirring up trouble generally does not infringe on a specific person, personality or public or private property, but mainly points to public order, challenges the whole society and despises socialist morality and the legal system.

legal ground

Article 226 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) commits one of the following acts by violence or threat. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and shall also or only be fined; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years, and shall also be fined: (1) buying and selling commodities by force; (2) Forcing others to provide or accept services; (three) forcing others to participate in or withdraw from the tender and auction; (4) Forcing others to transfer or purchase stocks, bonds or other assets of companies or enterprises; (5) Forcing others to participate in or withdraw from specific business activities.