"to commit theft" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it whenever you need to express the idea of someone doing something illegal to take property that belongs to someone else. For example: The police arrested the suspect after he was caught trying to commit theft.
He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit theft of government funds and to submit false documents.
She was charged with being in a place with the intention to commit theft.
Rafal Lisak, spokesman for Krakow's district court, said that Anders Hogstrom, 34, of Sweden, was suspected of incitement to commit theft of a cultural treasure.
The chance of being apprehended for stealing cryptocurrency is so low that the usual disincentive to commit theft is almost nonexistent.
Ms Brett, 47, Maher's sister Margaret Francis, 64, and a 54-year-old man, from Woodford Green, east London, are all currently on bail after being arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit theft.
"The value of personal identity data records and account details is increasingly high as it can be used in masquerading identity to commit theft of other data; or give direct access to personal bank account money and fraudulent transactions".
The BBC has also learned that offenders are increasingly travelling into London from the Home Counties to commit thefts.
The most likely explanation here is offenders who commit shoplifting are different to those who commit theft from person offences, due to the different skills sets required.
The first of these is that the research suggests offenders do not distinguish between below and above ground targets, and that BTP, CoLP and the MPS should consider more joined up operations to target offenders who commit theft.
A hypothesis that could be tested is whether offenders who commit theft on transit systems operate using crime scripts, similar to the master crime scripts used by burglars.
It is also suggested that offenders who commit theft from person offences near and inside transit systems are perhaps specialised, as relationships were not found between areas with high levels of theft from person and other theft types.
