What's the difference between robbery and theft?

Robbery


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or practice of robbing; theft.
  • (n.) The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arizona on Wednesday executed the oldest person on its death row, nearly 35 years after he was charged with murdering a Bisbee man during a robbery.
  • (2) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
  • (3) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
  • (4) In his memoirs, Reynolds recalls how, just before the Great Train Robbery took place, he had smoked a Montecristo No 2 cigar: "The thought ran through my mind: I have brought Cuba to Buckinghamshire."
  • (5) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
  • (6) Police chief Wolfgang Albers, 60, had been criticised for the handling of the violence, with a leaked police report describing this week how officers were initially overwhelmed by events outside the city’s train station, after which more than 100 women filed criminal complaints of sexual assault and robbery, including two accounts of rape.
  • (7) A suspect has been charged with murder and robbery in the case.
  • (8) Two people were arrested on Thursday night following an attempted smash-and-grab robbery at Selfridges department store in central London .
  • (9) The name, Sallah Ali, that he had given to police when he was arrested for robbery in the south of France 2013, might not be the correct name, he said.
  • (10) James Mason is an IRA man holed up in a safe house, who leaves his confinement to lead a bank robbery.
  • (11) Zschäpe was arrested in November 2011, after the bodies of Mundlos and Böhnhardt were found in a burnt out caravan in Eisenach, following a bank robbery that went badly wrong, after which the men apparently killed each other in a suicide pact.
  • (12) Car theft led to a third sentence, and it was during that time that he was to meet Bruce Reynolds , the mastermind of the Great Train Robbery.
  • (13) But despite the attention to detail with which the robbery was executed, fatal errors soon led the police to the doors of most of those who had participated.
  • (14) The plot revolved around the death of a mentally disturbed pizza delivery man who ends up killing himself in a robbery.
  • (15) It is the 50th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery, on Thursday.
  • (16) The two men believed to have founded the NSU with her, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt, set their caravan on fire and killed themselves in 2011 after a bank robbery went wrong.
  • (17) In Thursday's robbery the thieves all fled the scene within minutes.
  • (18) Photograph: AP Abdeslam, who had had several brushes with the law and spent time in prison for armed robbery in 2010, came agonisingly close to arrest in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, but slipped through police hands.
  • (19) For female victims, homicides resulted from disputes in 62.2 per cent of cases, drug-related activities in 13.8 per cent, and robberies in 20.0 per cent of cases.
  • (20) The interim report found that out of a sample of 2,551 incidents that should have been recorded as crimes officers wrongly failed to record 523 of them including sexual offences, crimes of violence, robbery and burglary.

Theft


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
  • (n.) The thing stolen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cruddas, who has several BNP councillors in his Barking constituency, told MPs in the House of Commons: "What's been uncovered in the internal workings of the BNP appears to be systematic illegality in terms of data protection, bugging, money laundering, theft and the operation of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
  • (2) In this investigation, reanalysis of responses to case vignettes obtained from 436 psychologists, psychiatrists, and internists revealed that on the issue of confidentiality management, these health care providers discriminate among cases involving: Premeditated harm to others, socially irresponsible acts with possible dire consequences to self or others, and minor theft.
  • (3) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
  • (4) Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.
  • (5) The ICE's Khaalid Walls confirmed the incident took place, and AMC responded with a statement: "Movie theft is something we take very seriously, and our theatre managers contact the Motion Picture Association of America any time it's suspected that someone may be illegally recording content on screen.
  • (6) That level of thefts is just not acceptable – logging each missing phone takes up a lot of police time."
  • (7) Postaddiction crime rates among narcotic (principally heroin) addicts in five different areas (theft, violence, dealing, confidence games, and other crime) were found to be substantially related to a number of preaddiction characteristics, especially criminal activity and drug and alcohol use prior to addiction to narcotics.
  • (8) This dramatic fall has been repeated across nearly every category of crime, including the big "volume" crimes such as burglary and car break-ins and thefts where better security and alarms have brought about even deeper falls in the crime levels.
  • (9) Banda, who has turned to lecturing abroad since she lost power, told an audience in the Netherlands this month that when she was alerted by an EU official about the theft, she knew she had no choice but to start fighting against corruption.
  • (10) Grand Theft Auto series Mostly about running around the streets with a big gun causing all kinds of chaos.
  • (11) And that being the case, should they be remanded in custody over the possession of an Oyster card not registered to them and the theft of a mirror?
  • (12) There has been a spate of thefts of rhino horns and elephant tusks from European museums, zoos and auction houses in recent years, amid a rising illegal trade in poached or stolen ivory .
  • (13) The new ban will mean that an offender who receives a simple caution for a shoplifting offence should not get another simple caution for further theft-related offences within the next two years.
  • (14) Power theft in Karachi and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas alone is believed to cost the state £138m in lost revenues .
  • (15) Car theft led to a third sentence, and it was during that time that he was to meet Bruce Reynolds , the mastermind of the Great Train Robbery.
  • (16) John Madelin, CEO at RelianceACSN and a former vice president responsible for the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, said: “We thought the previous breach of 500 million user accounts was huge, but 1 billion is monumental.” Tyler Moffitt, senior threat research analyst at Webroot, said: “All of the data stolen, including emails, passwords and security questions, make a potent package for identify theft.
  • (17) The Liberal Democrats' biggest donor, who has been on the run for three years after being convicted of a multimillion pound theft, is hiding in the Dominican Republic under a false British identity, the Guardian can disclose.
  • (18) Too many still write down pin numbers, contrary to all the advice from the banks, and are thereby at risk of theft.
  • (19) And of course, if the software that infects your machine is malicious, there's the serious risk of identity theft.
  • (20) Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation , gave a wide-ranging address to US media regulators that attacked internet news aggregation as "theft" and claimed that advertising-only business models were dead.