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National > Criminal Code > Shoplifting:

She's just a kid and her friends dared her to see if she could get away with it. Is that really theft?

Yes, it really is theft. It is theft if a person takes property belonging to another with an intention of depriving them of it. It doesn't matter if the property is worth very little or if it was just a dare.

 


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April 1997
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