Whats the difference between burglary and robbery?

Answer 1

Burglary – also called breaking and entering or house breaking – is a crime related to theft. It typically involves someone breaking into a house with an intent to commit a crime.

Robbery is the crime of seizing property through violence or intimidation. A perpetrator of a robbery is a robber. Violence is an ingredient of most robberies, and its use sometimes results in the murder of the victim(s). Robbery is generally an urban crime. In common with most legal terms, the precise definition of robbery varies between jurisdictions.

The element of force differentiates robbery from embezzlement, larceny, and other types of theft. Piracy is a type of robbery. Armed robbery involves the use of a weapon. Highway robbery takes place outside and in a public place. Carjacking is the act of stealing a car from a victim, usually at gunpoint. Banks are often the target of robberies.

Informally, robbery may be used to denote other kinds of theft that are not robbery, such as burglary. People returning home and finding their possessions stolen may well exclaim, "We've been robbed!", though actually they've been burgled.

Answer 2

Burglary is a form of theft in which goods are taken from a building. There are several forms, e.g. Burglary in a Dwelling (from a private home), Burglary Non-Dwelling (a.k.a. commercial burglary, e.g. from a warehouse or shop) and Aggravated Burglary (where some other offence has been committed incidental to the burglary, say the burglar was discovered by his/her victim and assaulted them).

Robbery is theft from a person, usually involving violence. So for example if you sneak into the back of a shop and steal things, that's Burglary; but if you walk into the front door of the shop and threaten the shop-keeper to obtain the same goods, that's Robbery. "Mugging" is a common form of street Robbery.

Both offence categories attract a custodial sentence, and Armed Robbery in particular is classified as a serious violent offence.

Answer 3

Robbery - The act of using or threating to use violence BEFORE or DURING a theft from a person.

Not after.
IE if a person is pushed to the ground after a theft has taken place then that is Assault and Theft not Robbery.

Burglary - The act of entering someones premises with the intent to steal, destroy property, rape or assault another person within the premises.

If there is no intent and no damage has occurred than it is Civil Trespass. Also Burglary can occur in a shop where a person's who does not work at the store takes money from a cash drawer (as they are not allowed to be there) by placing their hand over the counter. However if a member of staff takes the money it is theft.
Also If a persons steals from a letterbox or open window an item that is inside it is burglary.

Answer 4

Burglary - break into someone else's premises with intention to commit a crime like stealing or robbing

Robbery - taking away someone else's property by force or threat of force

Answer 5

Starting with robbery:

Obtaining someone's property unlwafully by threat or use of violence. An alternative is 'assault with intent to rob' which happens when the intent is not realized.

Burglary:

The essential element is that of trespass to premises (including 'inhabited vehicles' and vessels) with intention of commiting a felony or stealing property. Actually, it's the breaking and entering combined with intent to commit further crime (not necessarily property related), which is at the core of the definition of this offence. A Burglar may intend to assault, rape or simply destroy property rather than steal it.

Answer 6

Burglary is when you steal something from somebodys property. Robbery is when you steal from the person.

Answer 7

Under British law burglary is unlawfully entering a dwelling between 9PM and 6AM. This is considered a much more serious offence because people are likely to be sleeping in the house.

Answer 8

Burglary. When person trespasses onto a property to steal.
Robbery. When violence is offered or given to a person in order to steal their property.

Answer 9

The difference between burglary and robbery has been described as follows, along with related terms like Assault and Larceny (Theft):

BURGLARY -- Unlawful entry of any fixed structure, vehicle, or vessel used for regular residence, industry, or business, with or without force, with the intent to commit a larceny.

ROBBERY -- The unlawful taking or attempted taking of property that is in the immediate possession of another, by force or threat of force.

ASSAULT -- Unlawful intentional inflicting, or attempted inflicting, of injury upon the person of another. Aggravated assault is the unlawful intentional inflicting of serious bodily injury or unlawful threat or attempt to inflict bodily injury or death by means of a deadly or dangerous weapon with or without actual infliction of injury. Simple assault is the unlawful intentional inflicting of less than serious bodily injury without a deadly or dangerous weapon or an attempt or threat to inflict bodily injury without a deadly or dangerous weapon.

LARCENY-THEFT -- Unlawful taking or attempted taking of property other than a motor vehicle (motor vehicle theft is a separate category) from the possession of another, by stealth, without force and without deceit, with intent to permanently deprive the owner of the property.

In April 1987, Steven R. Schlesinger, Director of the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, made the following statement in a Special Report on Robbery Victims:

"Robbery ranks among the most serious and feared criminal offenses because it involves both threatened or actual violence and loss of property to the victim. It also occurs much more frequently than either rape or homicide. Although many robberies do not result in physical harm to the victim or extensive loss, fully 1 in 3 involve actual injury, ranging from bruises and black eyes to life-threatening gunshot or knife wounds, and 1 in 8 involve thefts of $250 or more."

In January 1985, this same person, in a bulletin on Household Burglaries, made the following statement:

"Household burglary ranks among the more serious felony crimes, not only because it involves the illegal entry of one's home, but also because a substantial proportion of the violent crimes that occur in the home take place during a burglary incident. Thus, burglary is potentially a far more serious crime than its classification as a property offense indicates; for many victims, including those that avoid the trauma of personal confrontation, the invasion of their home on one or more occasions constitutes a violation that produces permanent emotional scars."

Answer 10

the same as between, Banditry and buggery about 5 years