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  2. Culpability - Wikipedia

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    In criminal law, culpability, or being culpable, is a measure of the degree to which an agent, such as a person, can be held morally or legally responsible for action and inaction. It has been noted that the word, culpability, "ordinarily has normative force, for in nonlegal English, a person is culpable only if he is justly to blame for his ...

  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. Moral responsibility - Wikipedia

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    A similar view is that individual moral culpability lies in individual character. That is, a person with the character of a murderer has no choice other than to murder, but can still be punished because it is right to punish those of bad character. How one's character was determined is irrelevant from this perspective.

  5. Age of criminal responsibility - Wikipedia

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    Adolescent sexuality; Age of candidacy; Age of consent; Age of consent reform; Age of majority; Age of marriage; Behavior modification facility; Child labour

  6. Mens rea - Wikipedia

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    In criminal law, mens rea (/ ˈ m ɛ n z ˈ r eɪ ə /; Law Latin for "guilty mind" [1]) is the mental state of a defendant who is accused of committing a crime. In common law jurisdictions, most crimes require proof both of mens rea and actus reus ("guilty act") before the defendant can be found guilty.

  7. Accountability - Wikipedia

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    Accountability, in terms of ethics and governance, is equated with answerability, culpability, liability, and the expectation of account-giving. [1]As in an aspect of governance, it has been central to discussions related to problems in the public sector, nonprofit, private (), and individual contexts.

  8. Sociology of punishment - Wikipedia

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    The culpability principle is often used in deciding the punishment of offenders. However, there are large numbers of punishments handed down which do not obey this principle. Particularly, this is the case where the harmfulness and blameworthiness of offender's actions are not proportionate to the punishment.

  9. Culpable homicide - Wikipedia

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    Culpable homicide is a categorisation of certain offences in various jurisdictions within the Commonwealth of Nations which involves the homicide (illegal killing of a person) either with or without an intention to kill depending upon how a particular jurisdiction has defined the offence.