Theft, Larceny and Shoplifting

the act of acquiring the genetic material of another individual, usually from public places, without their permission

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

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

Package theft or cargo theft is the theft of a package or parcel.

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.

Package pilferage is the theft of part of the contents of a package.

In the retail industry, sweethearting is a form of theft by employees at the cash register, where they give away merchandise to a "sweetheart" customer (such as a friend, family member or fellow employee).

The theft of government property, also classified as stealing property from government officials, is the act of performing theft of property from federal, state or local governments; the crime is a felony in most areas.

The devious lick (also known as a diabolical lick, dastardly lick, or nefarious lick, among other names) was a social media trend in which middle- and high-school students posted videos of themselves stealing, vandalizing, or displaying items they stole from their school, typically from a bathroom (or, in some cases, merely pretending to have done so).

Shoplifting is generally defined as the unauthorized removal of merchandise from a store without paying for it, or intentionally paying less for an item than its sale price.

Theft is the taking of another person’s personal property with the intent of depriving that person of the use of their property.

According to news reports, gang members, several of them female, are known to surround their victims, force them to pull their hair back into a ponytail, and then cut it off. As many as three cases a day were being reported in August 2013.

Property crime is a category of crime in which the person who commits the crime seeks to do damage to or derive an unlawful benefit or interest from another’s property without using force or threat of force.

Subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, where the public have access to a building in order to view the building or part of it, or a collection or part of a collection housed in it, any person who without lawful authority removes from the building or its grounds the whole or part of any article displayed or kept for display to the public in the building or that part of it or in its grounds shall be guilty of an offence.