criminal negligence
Culpable careless conduct
Criminal negligence is a failure to exercise reasonable care that creates substantial risk of harm to others—recklessness so extreme it becomes a crime.
Unlike ordinary negligence in civil cases, criminal negligence requires gross deviation from what a reasonable person would do.
A drunk driver who kills a pedestrian may face charges of criminally negligent homicide.
The jury found criminal negligence in her failure to secure the construction site.
Careless disregard for danger
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
- derelictionAbandonment of duty
- omissionFailure to include
- disregardWillful lack of attention
inattention · oversight · heedlessness · irresponsibility · imprudence · indifference · lapse · failure to act
Physical or psychological harm
- deathCessation of life
- endangermentCausing risk of harm
- victimOne harmed by another
- fatalityDeath from accident
casualty · damage · suffering · trauma · accident · wrongful death · bodily harm · loss of life
Unlawful killing without forethought
- indictmentFormal charge from jury
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
- defendantParty facing charges
- liabilityLegal or financial obligation
duty of care · breach · involuntary manslaughter · penal code · statute · conviction · acquittal · sentencing
Deserving blame for wrongdoing
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- liabilityLegal or financial obligation
- blameAssign responsibility for wrongdoing
- faultImperfection or blame
guilt · answerable · duty · obligation · misconduct · punishable · moral culpability · legal duty
recklessness
Careless disregard for danger
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
- derelictionAbandonment of duty
- omissionFailure to include
disregard · inattention · oversight · heedlessness · irresponsibility · imprudence · indifference · lapse · failure to act · thoughtlessness
injury
Physical or psychological harm
- deathCessation of life
- endangermentCausing risk of harm
- victimOne harmed by another
fatality · casualty · damage · suffering · trauma · accident · wrongful death · bodily harm · loss of life · preventable death
manslaughter
Unlawful killing without forethought
- indictmentFormal charge from jury
- prosecutionPursuing legal charges
- defendantParty facing charges
liability · duty of care · breach · involuntary manslaughter · penal code · statute · conviction · acquittal · sentencing · felony
culpability
Deserving blame for wrongdoing
- responsibilityState of being answerable
- liabilityLegal or financial obligation
- blameAssign responsibility for wrongdoing
fault · guilt · answerable · duty · obligation · misconduct · punishable · moral culpability · legal duty
- negligencemedical malpractice, legal malpractice, carelessness, laxity, remissness
- criminal liabilityculpability, mens rea, blameworthiness, fault, legal responsibility
- faultfault, culpa, recklessness, carelessness, imprudence
- homicide lawhomicide, murder charge, manslaughter, first-degree murder, second-degree murder
- liquor lawsDUI, legal age, public intoxication, alcohol ban, open container
- reckless behaviorreckless driving, reckless endangerment, reckless abandon, dangerous driving, thrill seeking
criminal negligencedue diligence
Pre-transaction reasonable care
reasonable care · due care · prudence · vigilance · conscientiousness
criminal negligenceunavoidable accident
Harm no precaution prevents
premeditated murder · intentional harm · malice aforethought · act of God · misadventure
criminal negligenceinnocence
Freedom from wrongdoing
blamelessness · faultlessness · exoneration · acquittal · non-liability
crime, criminal, neglect, negligent, negligence, criminality, criminally, negligently, criminologist