is a crime Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some
governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction... ,
the essence of which is illicit entry into a building for the
purposes of committing an offense. Usually that offense will be
theft In common usage, theft is the illegal taking of another
person's property without that person's permission or consent.
The word is also used as an informal shorthand term for some
crimes against property, such as burglary, embezzlement,
larceny, looting, robbery, shoplifting and fraud... , but most
jurisdictions specify others which fall within the ambit of
burglary. To engage in the act of burglary is to burgle (in
British English British English, or English , is the broad term
used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in
the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere... ) or to
burglarize (in American English American English is a set of
dialects of the English language used mostly in the United
States. Approximately two-thirds of the worl