Talk:Robbery laws in the United States

Contested deletion

This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because it is completely different from Title 18 of the United States Code. The only thing in this article mentioning Title 18 is the federal penalty for robbery. Everything else lists the penalties in all 50 states, the military, and the District of Columbia. The federal penalty for robbery is the only thing on the page that has to do with Title 18. --Lethalninja (talk) 20:35, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

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I'm a little confused by the move from "robbery law in the United States" to "theft law in the United States". I'm not a lawyer or a legal professional, but I would have assumed that those are different crimes: If, for example, I break into an empty, parked car, short-circuit it and drive away with it, that's car theft, but not a robbery; on the other hand, if I pull a gun on a driver and tell him, "give me your car keys or I'll shoot you", that's robbery. That understanding agrees with our robbery article: "to take anything of value by force, threat of force or by putting the victim in fear", an element that would likely be considered aggravating because of the additional stress for the victim compared to simply finding his property gone. Mifter, am I wrong here? Is this not an aspect considered in US law, or is it treated differently (e.g. by being another crime in addition to theft, instead of transforming theft into robbery)? Huon (talk) 21:59, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

You are quite right, that is my mistake. I followed the original citation and came across a number of theft statutes and started expanding the article with information from them. I'll move the article back and split out my changes to consider if we want a second article. Mifter (talk) 22:20, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

@Huon: - All moved back, thanks again for pointing out my mixup. Mifter (talk) 22:27, 30 April 2017 (UTC)