8. Theft, Handling, and Robbery

This chapter begins with a discussion of the law on theft, robbery, assault with intent to rob, handling stolen goods, and money laundering offences. The second part of the chapter focuses on the theory of theft, covering property offences; the debate over Gomez; the Hinks debate; temporary appropriation; dishonesty; robberies; and handling stolen goods.

Ordinal compactness

We introduce a new covering property, defined in terms of order types of sequences of open sets, rather than in terms of cardinalities. The most general form depends on two ordinal parameters. Ordinal compactness turns out to be a much more varied notion than cardinal compactness. We prove many nontrivial results of the form ?every [?,?]-compact topological space is [?',?']-compact?, for ordinals ?,?, ?'and ?' while only trivial results of the above form hold, if we restrict to regular cardinals. Counterexamples are provided showing that many results are optimal. Many spaces satisfy the very same cardinal compactness properties, but have a broad range of distinct behaviors, as far as ordinal compactness is concerned. A much more refined theory is obtained for T1 spaces, in comparison with arbitrary topological spaces. The notion of ordinal compactness becomes partly trivial for spaces of small cardinality.

A covering property with respect to generalized preopen sets

In this paper, we introduce and study the notion of $\mu$-precompact spaces on the observation that each $\mu$-preopen set of a generalized topological space is contained in a $\mu$-open set. The $\mu$-precompactness is weaker than $\mu$-compactness but stronger than weakly $\mu$-compactness of generalized topological spaces.