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Theft

Index Theft

In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it. [1]

159 relations: Abstracting electricity, Actus reus, Al-Ma'ida, Amerasia, Ammonia, Anti-theft system, Art theft, Asset management, Australia, Bank robbery, Blackmail, British West Indies, Burglary, California, Canada, Carjacking, Chose, Commerce Clause, Company, Confidence trick, Confidentiality, Consent, Conversion (law), Court of Appeal (England and Wales), Credit card fraud, Crime, Crimes Act 1958, Criminal Code (Canada), Criminal conversion, Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act, 2001, Cybercrime, Dishonesty, Divisional court (England and Wales), Economic Espionage Act of 1996, Embezzlement, England, England and Wales, Espionage, Espionage Act of 1917, Extortion, Federal government of the United States, Felony, Fence (criminal), Fraud, Fraud Act 2006, Gentleman thief, Good faith, Grenada, Handling stolen goods, Hong Kong, ..., Hudud, Hybrid offence, Identity theft, Indictable offence, Indictment, Industrial espionage, Inline linking, Intangible property, Intention (criminal law), Jamaica, John Kaplan (law professor), Kentucky Revised Statutes, Kidnapping, Laptop theft, Larceny, Law of the Netherlands, Lawrence v Metropolitan Police Comr, Legal liability, Lesser included offense, Library theft, Lien, Life imprisonment, List of Latin legal terms, List of Law Reports in Australia, Looting, Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, Mens rea, Merriam-Webster, Metal theft, Methamphetamine, Misdemeanor, Mistake (criminal law), Mistake of law, Model Penal Code, Money, Money laundering, Motor vehicle theft, Non-aggression principle, Northern Ireland, Organized crime, Organized retail crime, Oxford v Moss, Package pilferage, Penal Code of Romania, Penology, Personal property, Pickpocketing, Piracy, Plagiarism, Possession of stolen goods, Prescribed sum, Prison, Privy council, Property, Property crime, Property is theft!, Quota share, Quran, R v Hinks, Real property, Repentance in Islam, Republic of Ireland, Robbery, Robert Weisberg, Romanian leu, Sand theft, Secret profit, Security of Information Act, Sentence (law), Service (economics), Sharia, Shoplifting, Short and long titles, Skimming (casinos), South Australia, Statute, Statutory interpretation, Street sign theft, Summary offence, Supreme Court of Canada, Supreme Court of Victoria, Synonym, Taking without owner's consent, Tax evasion, Taxation as theft, The Times, Theft, Theft Act, Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969, Theft Act 1968, Theft Act 1978, Theft by finding, Theft of services, Title (property), Tort, Trade secret, Trespass to chattels, U.S. state, United States, United States dollar, United States v. Manning, Usufruct, Value (economics), Victoria (Australia), Victorian Reports, Visiting Forces Act 1952, Wales, White-collar crime, Wolters Kluwer. Expand index (109 more) »

Abstracting electricity

Abstracting electricity is a statutory offence in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

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Actus reus

Actus reus, sometimes called the external element or the objective element of a crime, is the Latin term for the "guilty act" which, when proved beyond a reasonable doubt in combination with the mens rea, "guilty mind", produces criminal liability in the common law-based criminal law jurisdictions of England and Wales, Canada, Australia, India, Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand, Scotland, Nigeria, Ghana, Ireland, Israel and the United States of America.

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Al-Ma'ida

Surat al-Māʼida (سورة المائدة, "The Table" or "The Table Spread with Food", likely a word of Ethiopic origin) is the fifth chapter of the Quran, with 120 verses.

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Amerasia

Amerasia was a journal of Far Eastern affairs best known for the 1940s "Amerasia Affair" in which several of its staff and their contacts were suspected of espionage and charged with unauthorized possession of government documents.

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Ammonia

Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3.

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Anti-theft system

An anti-theft system is any device or method used to prevent or deter the unauthorized appropriation of items considered valuable.

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Art theft

Art theft is usually for the purpose of resale or for ransom (sometimes called artnapping).

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Asset management

Asset management, broadly defined, refers to any system that monitors and maintains things of value to an entity or group.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Bank robbery

Bank robbery is the crime of stealing money from a bank, while bank employees and customers are subjected to force, violence, or a threat of violence.

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Blackmail

Blackmail is an act, often criminal, involving unjustified threats to make a gain—most commonly money or property—or cause loss to another unless a demand is met.

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British West Indies

The British West Indies, sometimes abbreviated to the BWI, is a collective term for the British territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat and the British Virgin Islands.

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Burglary

Burglary (also called breaking and entering and sometimes housebreaking) is an unlawful entry into a building or other location for the purposes of committing an offence.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Carjacking

Carjacking is a robbery in which the item taken over is a motor vehicle.

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Chose

Chose (pronounced:, French for "thing") is a term used in common law tradition to refer to rights in property, specifically a combined bundle of rights.

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Commerce Clause

The Commerce Clause describes an enumerated power listed in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3).

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Company

A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity made up of an association of people for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise.

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Confidence trick

A confidence trick (synonyms include con, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, scam and stratagem) is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust.

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Confidentiality

Confidentiality involves a set of rules or a promise usually executed through confidentiality agreements that limits access or places restrictions on certain types of information.

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Consent

In common speech, consent occurs when one person voluntarily agrees to the proposal or desires of another.

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Conversion (law)

Conversion is an intentional tort consisting of "taking with the intent of exercising over the chattel an ownership inconsistent with the real owner's right of possession".

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Court of Appeal (England and Wales)

The Court of Appeal (COA, formally "Her Majesty's Court of Appeal in England") is the highest court within the Senior Courts of England and Wales, and second only to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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Credit card fraud

Credit card fraud is a wide-ranging term for theft and fraud committed using or involving a payment card, such as a credit card or debit card, as a fraudulent source of funds in a transaction.

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Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.

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Crimes Act 1958

The Crimes Act 1958 is an Act of the Parliament of Victoria.

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Criminal Code (Canada)

The Criminal Code (Code criminelThe citation of this Act by this short title is authorised by the French text of of this Act.) is a law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Canada.

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Criminal conversion

Criminal conversion is a crime, limited to parts of common law systems outside England and Wales, of exerting unauthorized use or control of someone else's property, at a minimum personal property, but in some jurisdictions also applying to types of real property, such as land (to squatting or holding over) or to patents, design rights and trademarks.

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Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act, 2001

The Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act, 2001 (No. 50 of 2001) updates and consolidates the law relating to dishonesty and fraud in the Republic of Ireland.

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Cybercrime

Cybercrime, or computer oriented crime, is crime that involves a computer and a network.

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Dishonesty

Dishonesty is to act without honesty.

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Divisional court (England and Wales)

A divisional court, in relation to the High Court of Justice of England and Wales, means a court sitting with at least two judges.

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Economic Espionage Act of 1996

The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 was a 6 title Act of Congress dealing with a wide range of issues, including not only industrial espionage (e.g., the theft or misappropriation of a trade secret and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act), but the insanity defense, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, requirements for presentence investigation reports, and the United States Sentencing Commission reports regarding encryption or scrambling technology, and other technical and minor amendments.

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Embezzlement

Embezzlement is the act of withholding assets for the purpose of conversion (theft) of such assets, by one or more persons to whom the assets were entrusted, either to be held or to be used for specific purposes.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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England and Wales

England and Wales is a legal jurisdiction covering England and Wales, two of the four countries of the United Kingdom.

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Espionage

Espionage or spying, is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information without the permission of the holder of the information.

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Espionage Act of 1917

The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years.

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Extortion

Extortion (also called shakedown, outwrestling and exaction) is a criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or services from an individual or institution, through coercion.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.

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Felony

The term felony, in some common law countries, is defined as a serious crime.

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Fence (criminal)

A fence, also known as a receiver, mover, moving man, or thiefspawn, is an individual who knowingly buys stolen goods in order to later resell them for profit.

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Fraud

In law, fraud is deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

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Fraud Act 2006

The Fraud Act 2006 (c 35) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which affects England and Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Gentleman thief

A gentleman thief, lady thief, or is a stock character in fiction.

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Good faith

Good faith (bona fides), in human interactions, is a sincere intention to be fair, open, and honest, regardless of the outcome of the interaction.

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Grenada

Grenada is a sovereign state in the southeastern Caribbean Sea consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain.

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Handling stolen goods

Handling stolen goods is the name of a statutory offence in England and Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Hudud

Hudud (Arabic: حدود Ḥudūd, also transliterated hadud, hudood; plural of hadd, حد) is an Arabic word meaning "borders, boundaries, limits".

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Hybrid offence

A hybrid offence, dual offence, Crown option offence, dual procedure offence, or wobbler is one of the special class offences in the common law jurisdictions where the case may be prosecuted either summarily or as indictment.

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Identity theft

Identity theft is the deliberate use of someone else's identity, usually as a method to gain a financial advantage or obtain credit and other benefits in the other person's name, and perhaps to the other person's disadvantage or loss.

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Indictable offence

In many common law jurisdictions (e.g., England and Wales, Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury (in contrast to a summary offence).

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Indictment

An indictment is a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime.

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Industrial espionage

Industrial espionage, economic espionage, corporate spying or corporate espionage is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security.

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Inline linking

Inline linking (also known as hotlinking, leeching, piggy-backing, direct linking, offsite image grabs) is the use of a linked object, often an image, on one site by a web page belonging to a second site.

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Intangible property

Intangible property, also known as incorporeal property, describes something which a person or corporation can have ownership of and can transfer ownership to another person or corporation, but has no physical substance, for example brand identity or knowledge/intellectual property.

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Intention (criminal law)

In criminal law, intent is one of three general classes of mens rea necessary to constitute a conventional, as opposed to strict liability, crime.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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John Kaplan (law professor)

John Kaplan (1929 - Nov. 25, 1989) was a legal scholar, social scientist, social justice advocate, popular law professor, and author.

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Kentucky Revised Statutes

Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS) is the name given to the body of laws which govern the Commonwealth of Kentucky, United States.

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Kidnapping

In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful carrying away (asportation) and confinement of a person against his or her will.

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Laptop theft

Laptop theft is a significant threat to users of laptop and netbook computers.

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Larceny

Larceny is a crime involving the unlawful taking of the personal property of another person or business.

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Law of the Netherlands

The Netherlands uses civil law.

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Lawrence v Metropolitan Police Comr

Lawrence v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (otherwise known as R v Lawrence) AC 262 is an English criminal law case establishing that the appropriation of property — under the meaning of the Theft Act 1968 — can be consented to.

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Legal liability

In law, liable means "esponsible or answerable in law; legally obligated." Legal liability concerns both civil law and criminal law and can arise from various areas of law, such as contracts, torts, taxes, or fines given by government agencies.

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Lesser included offense

In criminal law, a lesser included offense is a crime for which all of the elements necessary to impose liability are also elements found in a more serious crime.

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Library theft

Theft from libraries is the crime of stealing books, DVDs or other media from libraries.

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Lien

A lien is a form of security interest granted over an item of property to secure the payment of a debt or performance of some other obligation.

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Life imprisonment

Life imprisonment (also known as imprisonment for life, life in prison, a life sentence, a life term, lifelong incarceration, life incarceration or simply life) is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted persons are to remain in prison either for the rest of their natural life or until paroled.

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List of Latin legal terms

A number of Latin terms are used in legal terminology and legal maxims.

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List of Law Reports in Australia

This is a list of Law reports covering the decisions of Australian Courts.

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Looting

Looting, also referred to as sacking, ransacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging, is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as war, natural disaster (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting.

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Magistrates' Courts Act 1980

The Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Mens rea

Mens rea (Law Latin for "guilty mind") is the mental element of a person's intention to commit a crime; or knowledge that one's action or lack of action would cause a crime to be committed.

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Merriam-Webster

Merriam–Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books which is especially known for its dictionaries.

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Metal theft

Metal theft is "the theft of items for the value of their constituent metals".

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Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine (contracted from) is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is mainly used as a recreational drug and less commonly as a second-line treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obesity.

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Misdemeanor

A misdemeanor (American English, spelled misdemeanour in British English) is any "lesser" criminal act in some common law legal systems.

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Mistake (criminal law)

A mistake of fact may sometimes mean that, while a person has committed the physical element of an offence, because they were labouring under a mistake of fact, they never formed the required mens rea, and so will escape liability for offences that require mens rea.

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Mistake of law

Mistake of law is a legal principle referring to one or more errors that were made by a person in understanding how the applicable law applied to their past activity that is under analysis by a court.

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Model Penal Code

The Model Penal Code (MPC) is a text designed to stimulate and assist U.S. state legislatures to update and standardize the penal law of the United States of America.

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Money

Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a particular country or socio-economic context.

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Money laundering

Money laundering is the act of concealing the transformation of profits from illegal activities and corruption into ostensibly "legitimate" assets.

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Motor vehicle theft

Motor vehicle theft or grand theft auto is the criminal act of stealing or attempting to steal a motor vehicle.

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Non-aggression principle

The non-aggression principle (or NAP; also called the non-aggression axiom, the anti-coercion, zero aggression principle or non-initiation of force) is an ethical stance that asserts that aggression is inherently wrong.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Organized crime

Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit.

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Organized retail crime

Organized retail crime (ORC) refers to professional shoplifting, cargo theft, retail crime rings and other organized crime occurring in retail environments.

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Oxford v Moss

Oxford v Moss (1979) 68 Cr App Rep 183 is an English criminal law case, dealing with theft, intangible property and information.

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Package pilferage

Pilferage is the theft of part of the contents of a package.

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Penal Code of Romania

The Penal Code of Romania (Codul penal al României) is a document providing the legal basis regarding criminal law in Romania.

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Penology

Penology (from "penal", Latin poena, "punishment" and the Greek suffix -logia, "study of") is a section of criminology that deals with the philosophy and practice of various societies in their attempts to repress criminal activities, and satisfy public opinion via an appropriate treatment regime for persons convicted of criminal offences.

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Personal property

Personal property is generally considered property that is movable, as opposed to real property or real estate.

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Pickpocketing

Pickpocketing is a form of larceny that involves the stealing of money or other valuables from the person of a victim without them noticing the theft at the time.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable items or properties.

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Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work.

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Possession of stolen goods

Possession of stolen goods is a crime in which an individual has bought, been given, or acquired stolen goods anyway.

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Prescribed sum

The prescribed sum is the maximum fine that may be imposed on summary conviction of certain offences in the United Kingdom.

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Prison

A prison, also known as a correctional facility, jail, gaol (dated, British English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (American English), or remand center is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state.

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Privy council

A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government.

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Property

Property, in the abstract, is what belongs to or with something, whether as an attribute or as a component of said thing.

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Property crime

Property crime is a category of crime that includes, among other crimes, burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism.

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Property is theft!

Property is theft! (La propriété, c'est le vol !) is a slogan coined by French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in his 1840 book What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.

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Quota share

A quota share is a specified number or percentage of the allotment as a whole (quota), that is prescribed to each individual entity.

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Quran

The Quran (القرآن, literally meaning "the recitation"; also romanized Qur'an or Koran) is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (Allah).

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R v Hinks

R v Hinks is an English case heard by the House of Lords on appeal from the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.

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Real property

In English common law, real property, real estate, realty, or immovable property is land which is the property of some person and all structures (also called improvements or fixtures) integrated with or affixed to the land, including crops, buildings, machinery, wells, dams, ponds, mines, canals, and roads, among other things.

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Repentance in Islam

Tawba (توبة alternatively spelled: tevbe or Turkish: tövbe)B.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Robbery

Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by putting the victim in fear.

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Robert Weisberg

Robert I. Weisberg is an American lawyer.

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Romanian leu

The Romanian leu (plural lei; ISO 4217 code RON; numeric code 946) is the currency of Romania.

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Sand theft

Sand theft or unauthorised or illegal sand mining leads to a widely unknown global example of natural and non-renewable resource depletion problem comparable in extent to global water scarcity.

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Secret profit

In English law, a secret profit is a profit made by an employee who uses his employer's premises and business facilities in order to engage in unauthorised trade on his own behalf.

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Security of Information Act

The Security of Information Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. O-5), formerly known as the Official Secrets Act, is an Act of the Parliament of Canada that addresses national security concerns, including threats of espionage by foreign powers and terrorist groups, and the intimidation or coercion of ethnocultural communities in and against Canada.

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Sentence (law)

A sentence is a decree of punishment of the court in criminal procedure.

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Service (economics)

In economics, a service is a transaction in which no physical goods are transferred from the seller to the buyer.

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Sharia

Sharia, Sharia law, or Islamic law (شريعة) is the religious law forming part of the Islamic tradition.

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Shoplifting

Shoplifting (also known as boosting and five-finger discount), is the unnoticed theft of goods from an open retail establishment.

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Short and long titles

The short title is the formal name by which a piece of primary legislation may by law be cited in the United Kingdom and other Westminster-influenced jurisdictions (such as Canada or Australia), as well as the United States and the Philippines.

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Skimming (casinos)

Skimming refers to the illegal transfer of funds from casinos to outside personnel without official documentation.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Statute

A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative authority that governs a city, state, or country.

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Statutory interpretation

Statutory interpretation is the process by which courts interpret and apply legislation.

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Street sign theft

Street sign theft occurs when street signs are stolen, often to be used as decorations, but also sometimes to avoid obeying the law by claiming later the sign was not there.

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Summary offence

A summary offence is a crime in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment (required for an indictable offence).

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Supreme Court of Canada

The Supreme Court of Canada (Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada, the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system.

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Supreme Court of Victoria

The Supreme Court of Victoria is the superior court for the State of Victoria, Australia.

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Synonym

A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.

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Taking without owner's consent

In the United Kingdom, taking without owner's consent (TWOC), also referred to as unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle (UTMV) and taking and driving away (TADA or TDA) describes any unauthorised use of a car or other conveyance that does not constitute theft.

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Tax evasion

Tax evasion is the illegal evasion of taxes by individuals, corporations, and trusts.

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Taxation as theft

The idea of taxation as theft is a viewpoint found in a number of political philosophies.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Theft

In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.

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Theft Act

Theft Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom which relates to theft and other offences against property.

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Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969

The Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c 16) is an Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

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Theft Act 1968

The Theft Act 1968 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Theft Act 1978

The Theft Act 1978 (c 31) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Theft by finding

Theft by finding occurs when someone chances upon an object which seems abandoned and takes possession of the object but fails to take steps to establish whether the object is genuinely abandoned and not merely lost or unattended.

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Theft of services

Theft of services is the legal term for a crime which is committed when a person obtains valuable services — as opposed to goods — by deception, force, threat or other unlawful means, i.e., without lawfully compensating the provider for these services.

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Title (property)

In property law, a title is a bundle of rights in a piece of property in which a party may own either a legal interest or equitable interest.

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Tort

A tort, in common law jurisdictions, is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act.

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Trade secret

A trade secret is a formula, practice, process, design, instrument, pattern, commercial method, or compilation of information not generally known or reasonably ascertainable by others by which a business can obtain an economic advantage over competitors or customers.

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Trespass to chattels

Trespass to chattels is a tort whereby the infringing party has intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) interfered with another person's lawful possession of a chattel (movable personal property).

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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United States v. Manning

United States v. Manning was the court-martial of former United States Army Private First Class Bradley E. ManningJennifer Rizzo,, CNN, February 23, 2012.

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Usufruct

Usufruct is a limited real right (or in rem right) found in civil-law and mixed jurisdictions that unites the two property interests of usus and fructus.

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Value (economics)

Economic value is a measure of the benefit provided by a good or service to an economic agent.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Victorian Reports

The Victorian Reports (VR) are a series of law reports which report significant cases from the Supreme Court of Victoria in its first decisions and appeal decisions jurisdictions.

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Visiting Forces Act 1952

The Visiting Forces Act 1952 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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White-collar crime

White-collar crime refers to financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed by business and government professionals.

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Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer N.V. is a global information services company.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft

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