The phrase "assessment of blame" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are evaluating or analyzing who is responsible for a particular situation or outcome.
Example: "The committee conducted an assessment of blame to determine who was at fault for the project's failure."
Alternatives: "evaluation of responsibility" or "determination of fault."
He said this assessment of blame was unfair, in part because party bosses no longer exist.
I disagree with Mr. Cohen's assessment of blame for the current disaster in Georgia.
Regardless of the final assessment of blame, Wall Street analysts warned that everything BP does from now on will come under increased scrutiny by regulators and that potential partners in drilling ventures may well look elsewhere.
Ban said the mandate given the inspection team didn't call for an assessment of blame, just a determination of whether banned chemical agents were used.
Unlike the Biblical transgression, however, the source of the curse that dogs an Asante woman's descendants through seven generations defies pinpointing and straightforward assessments of blame; you might as well shun your own hand.
"It introduces a variable that is highly contingent on luck and fortuity to drive sentences," he said, and it may steer the courts away from "considered assessments" of blame and punishment.
Once BP begins to get its crude oil out of the Gulf of Mexico and off the front pages, a new fight will begin, one that pits a heavyweight energy corporation against the United States government in a battle over assessment of costs and blame.
He called for a professional assessment of who was to blame.
The board's vice president, Thomas M. Weibrecht, was blunt in his assessment of who is to blame for Lincoln's problems.
Former President Jimmy Carter this week offered a blunt, pull-no-punches assessment of who's to blame for a three-decade political stalemate in the passage of comprehensive health care reform.
No assessment of his stewardship could absolve him of blame, but there was also an instinctive rejection of Burley.
