When Will Acts of Theft Show Up on My Background Check

My question involves criminal law for the state of: Illinois
If no police involve in shoplifting case and paid the civil demand does it show up in your background check?

Since what shows up in any given background check depends entirely on how deep or thorough the check is and what questions the employer asks of whom, the only really accurate answer would have to be, Unlikely not not altogether inpossible.

Also, many stores report confessions of shoplifting by adults to a private database of known shoplifters, so if that happened in your case the retailers who subscribe to that database would be able to pull up the incident even without a prosecution.

If you weren't convicted you most background checks will not show anything. The only one that it's likely to show is the NRTD where the member merchants report and can obtain histories. You may find that will disqualify you from some retail jobs. Certainly you ought to be leary of applying to the same merchant you stole from.

I would just like to point out that there is more to a background check than a run through an agency or database. I've had information I wasn't even looking for fall into my lap from sources you would never expect.