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The degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offence.
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While he avoided serious trouble, he saw how easily a careless choice could lead to culpability instead of accomplishment.
The verdict showed that the notion of innocent youth as a shield to culpability might not hold as much sway as it once did in court, Marcellus A. McRae, a former federal prosecutor, said.
"It's either meaningless with respect to culpability or, pointing to the riskier side, the more likely that he's implicated, because the people you're really suspicious of you don't really interview until later".
PETER C. ALKALAY Scarsdale, N.Y., March 19 , 2012To the Editor: After more than 30 years of representing teenagers across the nation, I was flabbergasted that a member of my profession would say that the guilty verdict for Dharun Ravi means "that the notion of innocent youth as a shield to culpability might not hold as much sway as it once did in court".
Also posing a challenge to successful prosecution is what Estrich calls the "assumption of risk approach to culpability": the common belief that, as she puts it, "women who put themselves in compromising positions shouldn't complain when they are compromised" (1992, 10).
By establishing accountability, we can move on to culpability.
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Its principal tactic was to shift culpability to UCIL, stating the plant was wholly built and operated by the Indian subsidiary.
To apologize is not to admit culpability but rather to respect the public's sense of woundedness.
"He's being a coward by refusing to admit to his culpability.
She also called the restitution order for $529,000 "grossly disproportionate to his culpability relative to other people who have abused Amy".
It was a decent man trying to share culpability and to effectively remind anyone who would listen of the old adage about treating triumph and disaster the same.
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