What is the penalty for stealing? How many years do you usually get for stealing?

Article 264 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), whoever steals public or private property in a relatively large amount, or repeatedly steals, enters a house, carries a murder weapon or pickpockets, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also, or shall only, be fined; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years or life imprisonment, and shall also be fined or confiscated.

Article 265 Whoever, for the purpose of making profits, steals another person's communication line, copies another person's telecommunication code number or uses the telecommunication equipment or facilities knowingly stolen or copied shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of Article 264 of this Law.

The public security organ shall accept, register and seriously investigate and deal with theft cases that have been reported to the police, regardless of the amount of stolen property. Among them, those who reach the local standard of the amount of theft crimes are classified as criminal cases; Breaking doors and windows, pickpocketing, using tools such as blades or carrying weapons to steal, regardless of the amount of stolen property, are criminal cases;

Obviously, it is a recidivist crime or one person commits crimes many times, and the circumstances or consequences are serious, and other cases do not meet the prescribed amount standard, which is also a criminal case; The rest are investigated as public security cases, and if they are found to constitute criminal cases through work, they shall be established as criminal cases in time.

If the amount of theft is more than 2,000 yuan, or if the circumstances and consequences are serious, it is a major case; If the amount of theft is more than 20,000 yuan, or if the circumstances or consequences are particularly serious, it shall be classified as serious.