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  2. Culpability - Wikipedia

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    "Culpability means, first and foremost, direct involvement in the wrongdoing, such as through participation or instruction", as compared with responsibility merely arising from "failure to supervise or to maintain adequate controls or ethical culture". [4] Modern criminal codes in the United States usually make distinct four degrees of culpability.

  3. Criminal negligence - Wikipedia

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    The degree of culpability is determined by applying a reasonable-person standard. Criminal negligence becomes "gross" when the failure to foresee involves a "wanton disregard for human life" (see the definitions of corporate manslaughter and in many common law jurisdictions of gross negligence manslaughter).

  4. Mens rea - Wikipedia

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    The standard common law test of criminal liability is expressed in the Latin phrase actus reus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea, [2] i.e. "the act is not culpable unless the mind is guilty". [3] [4] As a general rule, someone who acted without mental fault is not liable in criminal law. [5] [6] Exceptions are known as strict liability crimes.

  5. Preterintention - Wikipedia

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    Preterintention in criminal law is a degree of culpability in which a defendant intended to commit a crime but also unintentionally committed a more serious crime. It derives from the legal Latin phrase praeter intentionem, which means "beyond intention". [1]

  6. Model Penal Code - Wikipedia

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    The Model Penal Code (MPC) is a model act designed to stimulate and assist U.S. state legislatures to update and standardize the penal law of the United States. [1] [2] The MPC was a project of the American Law Institute (ALI), and was published in 1962 after a ten-year drafting period. [3]

  7. Moral Injury: The Recruits - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    The inability to consistently achieve the highest levels of moral behavior in the shambles and chaos of war can produce varying degrees of “shame and guilt and anger – the primary emotional consequences of this moral injury,” Castellana said.

  8. Fault (law) - Wikipedia

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    Most requirements for a successful actus reus require a voluntary act, or omission, for evidence of fault. There is also a requirement for a clear causation, there is no liability or fault if the defendant was not actually the sole cause of the act, this is so if there was an intervention of a third party, an unexpected natural event, or the victim's own act.

  9. He sold the fentanyl that killed an infant. A judge decides ...

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    The office ruled her death a homicide, prompting Kirwan’s arrest on charges of aggravated manslaughter of a child by culpable negligence. Her criminal case, filed in Palm Beach County Circuit ...