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Substantive criminal law

Vol. 51 (2019)

The time of attempting and committing theft in a self-service shop

  • Tomasz Tyburcy
DOI
https://doi.org/10.19195/2084-5065.51.2
Submitted
17 September 2019
Published
17-09-2019

Abstract

The time of attempting and committing theft in a self-service shop

If the place where the theft was committed is a supermarket, establishing the precise time of that attempt is often disputed. It depends on the acceptance of a certain theoretical view about the notion of “an attempt.” According to the dominant position adopted in the Polish legal literature, theft is committed at the time of seizing the property, even before approaching the cash register.