Robbery differs from larceny in that it:

• A. Robbery involves taking property from a person through force, threat, or intimidation; larceny is theft without direct force against a person.
• B. Robbery is theft without force; larceny involves force or threat.
• C. Robbery requires intent to steal; larceny does not.
• D. Larceny requires taking property from a person; robbery does not.

Answer: (A)

The key idea here is what makes robbery different from larceny: the involvement of force or threat directed at a person to obtain property. Robbery is taking property from a person through force, threat, or intimidation, meaning the victim is present and the attacker uses fear or violence to gain the property. Larceny, on the other hand, is theft without that direct force or intimidation against the person; it’s a taking of someone else’s property without consent, but not accomplished by forcing or frightening the victim at the moment of taking. So the element that distinguishes robbery is the force or threat against the person to seize the property, which makes the statement describing that difference the correct one. The other ideas mix up who is protected by force, or the role of force in the crime, which is why they don’t fit.