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Robbery has a specific legal connotation and is not equivalent to theft. Theft is the unlawful taking of property. Robbery is a subset of theft where violence
by coredog64 6y ago
Robbery has a specific legal connotation and is not equivalent to theft.
Theft is the unlawful taking of property. Robbery is a subset of theft where violence or the threat of violence is used to accomplish the taking.
Pickpockets are thieves, not robbers.
- MiroF 6y agoYou're absolutely right, I've edited my comment slightly. I was making the assumption that total $ robbed was an upper bound on total $ pickpocket, which seems reasonable given what I've observed in the United States - but I am having trouble finding reasonable statistics about incidence in the United States.