Types of threats for extortion a property of another owners

Introduction: this article discusses the controversial questions of the criminal threat classification. Purpose: study of the current approaches to assessment of threat as the most prevailing type of mental violence, search of solutions to the problems pertain­ing to matter and classification of criminal threats. Methods: general methods of scien­tific research (dialectical, metaphysical); general scientific methods of research (synthe­sis, analysis, system approach); specific scientific methods (legalistic, law comparative, historical, sociological). Results: according to results of studying the scientific sources and law of practice, the author acknowledges that restricted interpretation of threat, as a component of violent crimes including extortion, is unjustified. Conclusions: the author proposes to divide all criminal threats into two classes, analyses character and classifi­cation of one of two criminal threat types - hazard-threat.