The phrase "acknowledged culpability" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone admits to being responsible for a wrongdoing or fault.
Example: "The defendant's statement revealed an acknowledged culpability for the actions that led to the accident."
Alternatives: "admitted guilt" or "accepted responsibility".
The Saudi government has long denied any role in the Sept. 11 plot, and any negotiation with the United States could be viewed as acknowledging culpability.
Two years ago, in an interview with the New Yorker to coincide with her first parole hearing, Boudin would only say: 'I was responsible for not being responsible' - a formula that had the effect of acknowledging culpability while simultaneously denying it.
My guess is, that thing is the innate human abhorrence of acknowledging culpability.
Fear of liability appears to prevent professionals from disclosing errors [ 11, 20] and hospital insurance companies in the Netherlands explicitly forbid medical professionals to acknowledge culpability.
The United Nations has not acknowledged its culpability.
They are trying to compensate for time missed during training camp and the lockout, and each has acknowledged his culpability.
"Out of the 100 or so companies we looked at, only one acknowledged managerial culpability -- Andy Grove at Intel for the company's handling of the Pentium," he said.
While Turkey does not deny that many died, it has rejected the term genocide and has prosecuted people who have publicly acknowledged Turkish culpability for it.
The 1967 publication in Germany of The Inability to Mourn ignited a long, anguished national debate about collective denial, and yet despite a major 1981 book on Vichy and the Jews, it wasn't until 1995 that Jacques Chirac finally acknowledged the culpability of the French state, and then only in response to Jewish and ex-Resistance members' protests.
Indians must acknowledge their culpability for atrocities during the partition, for example.
