Criminal law defines"burglary" as breaking and entering into someone's house with intent to take something within. Example: if your friend come to visit you and you let him/her go inside your house, he/she took something from your house without asking. Here, it does not meet the criteria of breaking, so, it is only stealing. Burgary, force is used for breaking and entering, it is not to people. Robbery is taking something from someone by force using deadly weapon or threatening someone's life. Muggling, sorry I wasn't train in using this word. Addition: - If someone steals a wallet from your pocket in the street - you are not robbed. -If someone "burgled" a house, it is not necessarily means some destruction like broken windows, doors etc? Just open the window or a door a little to get in, it meet the criteria of breaking and entering.

Hello Olga_L, * According to the dictionary " robbery " is the stealing of property from a person by using or threatening to use force. It could be the synonym of "burglary", which is explained as entering a building by force and stealing things. So as you see force could be an initiative action in both cases and what differentiate them is that the act of violence in 'burglary' is manifested in entering and breaking through a building. "Mugging" on the other hand involves a personal attack rather to steal money. "Attacking a person" and "entering a place by force" both are considered acts of violence. It seems like all of them include acts of violence but characterized by different actions.

Dear kind friend Ms. Olga. Robbery is "the serious crime of stealing", for example robbery large amount of money when violence is used Mug is " to seal something from a person especially in a public place with attack Burglary is "the crime of stealing " by entering to a place like house the act of stealing: theft burglary robbery break-in hold-up stick-up (informal American word) raid job (informal word) your first answer is "Robbery" your second aswer is "snatch" and you can use "rob". Do you know there is a dictionary in name of Activator?. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Hi Olga, The act of mugging involves physically assaulting someone with the intention of robbing them. If someone just like you said, picks your pocket with no violence involved, you were robbed. You can say robbed in both instances, but the term mugged lets the listener know it was with a degree of violence. to burglarize a house or a bank is to break into and steal from. So burglary and robbery is the same thing.. the only difference is that if the building is closed or locked down and the person breaks in to steal.. it is burglary. Burglary doesn't necessarily mean destruction of some sort, but most of the time it does. Burglary also does not imply violence. You can rob a bank or a house with or without violence and it would still be robbing. Hope this helps.