Civil recovery

Okay, so let me explain it to you like you're 5 years old.

Civil recovery is kind of like a punishment for people who take things that don't belong to them from a store. When you go to a store, you are supposed to pay for the things you want to take home with you. If you don't pay for something and you try to take it with you anyway, that's called stealing.

When stores catch people doing this, they have a few different ways to punish them. One of those ways is called civil recovery. This means that the store can ask the person who took something without paying to pay them some money. It's kind of like a fine, but it's not the same thing as getting in trouble with the police.

The store might send a letter to the person who stole something, saying "Hey, you owe us some money because you took something without paying for it." Usually, they will ask for more money than the thing is actually worth, because they want to discourage other people from stealing as well.

Some people think that civil recovery is a good punishment because it means that the store can get some money back for the things that were taken without permission. Other people think it's unfair because it can be very expensive for the person who stole something, and they might not have realized that what they were doing was wrong.

So, to sum up: civil recovery is when a store asks for money from someone who took something without paying, and it's kind of like a fine. Some people like it, and some people don't.