Thief is a variant of the word thief, applied to refer to the individual who steals belongings that do not have a significant value. It is important to highlight that the thief is the person who practices theft or robbery, they are people who carry out acts to commit a crime since robbery or theft are actions penalized by the laws of any nation; There is constant confusion that robbery and theft are synonymous, however this is not the case, robbery is the action of seizing objects belonging to other owners using brute force, violence or intimidation of the victim to that forcibly grants the object in question.
Theft on its part is the taking of foreign objects but violence or force is not implied, the taking of these objects is done silently in moments of distraction by the owner, the situation of confrontation or struggle between the owner is avoided. victim and the thief when the wrong object is taken.
As mentioned above, with or without violence involved, the taking of someone else's property is a criminal act, therefore both situations are punishable by law; The judicial penalty for the irregularity committed by the individual in question will depend more than anything on the characteristics of the event, if a careful comparison is made between the cases evaluated previously, it could be highlighted that the severity can be very different in the same crime.
At present the presence of the thief in the act is not an indispensable factor, this is because they use virtual and communication means to carry out their misdeeds; An example of this would be identity theft through the use of the internet, in which the thief pretends to be the person who stole their identity, this is done in order for the thief to have access to the accounts banking, credit cards or any other service of the victim, which brings him profits and which manages to harm the victim of the situation.
