Property Offenses Involving Violence or Threat

The ICCS class for offenses against property where the offender uses or threatens force against a person to take, damage or extort it, distinguishing this class from ordinary theft by the presence of confrontation or coercion. Belongs here: robbery and its close variants where a person is directly confronted, extortion where compliance is coerced by threat rather than taken by stealth, and arson, included here because deliberately setting a fire endangers persons and property together rather than affecting property alone. Does not belong here: property taken or damaged with no confrontation or threat to a person, grouped under Property Offenses Without Violence. This subcategory groups Robbery, Carjacking, Extortion and Arson.