its a person that is with the one that is doing the shoplifting, being the look out or just helping conceal things. If you know the person is shoplifting you'd be the accomplice, even though you didn't do it. If caught, the accomplice can be charged around the same as the person who shoplifted.
Shoplifter Records was created in 2003.
I Was a Shoplifter was created on 1950-05-13.
Accomplice. Or it could be an Abettor.
accomplice
The Shoplifter - 1915 was released on: USA: 7 February 1915
I was the accomplice to a crime
The plural of accomplice is accomplices
Arrest of a Shoplifter - 1900 was released on: USA: July 1900
The Shifty Shoplifter - 1918 was released on: USA: 15 April 1918
An accomplice is somebody who joins in with an activity of another person. Usually an accomplice is somebody that has helped a person commit a crime.
He is the accomplice of this crime.
The bank robber had an accomplice waiting outside in a car.