Editing Culpability (section)

{{Short description|Degree to which one is morally or legally responsible for a crime}}
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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 [[Moral responsibility|morally]] or [[Legal liability|legally responsible]] for action and [[Omission (law)|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 conduct".<ref>George P. Fletcher, ''Rethinking Criminal Law'' (2000), p. 398.</ref> The guilt principle requires that in order to convict a person it is necessary to ascertain his voluntary or reckless behaviour, Strict Liability being prohibited.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2015 |title=Twelfth international congress of penal law (Hamburg, 16 – 22 September 1979) |url=https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-droit-penal-2015-1-page-323.htm |journal=Revue internationale de droit pénal |language=fr |volume=86 |issue=1–2 |pages=323–334 |doi=10.3917/ridp.861.0323 |issn=0223-5404|url-access=subscription }}</ref>