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  2. Snatch theft - Wikipedia

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    A drawing illustrating snatch thieves stealing a purse from a woman via motorbike. These types of mopeds are typically used by snatch thieves. Snatch theft is a criminal act, common in Southeast Asia, South America, and Southern Europe, [citation needed] of forcefully stealing a pedestrian's personal property by employing rob-and-run tactics.

  3. Robbery - Wikipedia

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    Force used after the theft is complete will not turn the theft into a robbery. The words "or immediately after" that appeared in section 23(1)(b) of the Larceny Act 1916 were deliberately omitted from section 8(1). [11] The book Archbold said that the facts in R v Harman, [12] which did not amount to robbery in 1620, would not amount to robbery ...

  4. Florida man attacks elderly woman, robs her of lottery ... - AOL

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    The Orange County Sheriff's Office has issued an arrest warrant for Fleury on charges of robbery, sudden snatching and battery on a person 65 or older. Information on his whereabouts can be called ...

  5. Kleptomania - Wikipedia

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    There is a difference between ordinary theft and kleptomania: "ordinary theft (whether planned or impulsive) is deliberate and motivated by the usefulness of the object or its monetary worth," whereas with kleptomania, there "is the recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal items even though the items are not needed for personal use or for ...

  6. Carjacking - Wikipedia

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    The word is a portmanteau of car and hijacking.The term was coined by reporter Scott Bowles and editor E. J. Mitchell with The Detroit News in 1991. [4] [5] [6] The News first used the term in a report on the murder of Ruth Wahl, a 22-year-old Detroit drugstore cashier who was killed when she would not surrender her Suzuki Sidekick, and in an investigative report examining the rash of what ...

  7. Motor vehicle theft - Wikipedia

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    A car with one of its windows broken. Motor vehicle theft or car theft (also known as a grand theft auto in the United States) is the criminal act of stealing or attempting to steal a motor vehicle. In 2020, there were 810,400 vehicles reported stolen in the United States, up from 724,872 in 2019. [1]

  8. Larceny - Wikipedia

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    Larceny is a crime involving the unlawful taking or theft of the personal property of another person or business. It was an offence under the common law of England and became an offence in jurisdictions which incorporated the common law of England into their own law (also statutory law), where in many cases it remains in force.

  9. Startle response - Wikipedia

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    The amygdala is known to have a role in the "fight-or-flight response", and the hippocampus functions to form memories of the stimulus and the emotions associated with it. [13] The role of the BNST in the acoustic startle reflex may be attributed to specific areas within the nucleus responsible for stress and anxiety responses. [12]