blameworthiness

But if Virginia is pleased with itself, those who think punishment should reflect blameworthiness are not.

"fault or blameworthiness on the part of the defendant."

Other states look backward, asking juries to consider the moral blameworthiness of the crime.

It is not necessary for an offence to distinguish between degrees of moral blameworthiness.

Fault, as a legal term, refers to legal blameworthiness and responsibility in each area of law.

They also have a degree of blameworthiness."

There are two possible ways of assessing the claimant's share in the responsibility for the damage, causation and blameworthiness.

Types of sentences will also reflect level of blameworthiness:

Therefore, in his view, a higher level of blameworthiness is required to impose liability in dishonest assistance.

Particularly, this is the case where the harmfulness and blameworthiness of offender's actions are not proportionate to the punishment.

Fault: blameworthiness in the form of dolus (intention) or culpa (negligence).

The second is the culpability principle; that punishment should be in proportion to the harmfulness and blameworthiness of an offender's actions.

From a legal perspective, culpability describes the degree of one's blameworthiness in the commission of a crime or offense.

A short reflection told him that this proved nothing, a natural delicacy being as ample a reason for silence as any degree of blameworthiness.

At the same time, he's very young looking, and that may affect the jury's deliberation about whether his immaturity mitigates his blameworthiness.

In ethics and governance, accountability is answerability, blameworthiness, liability, and the expectation of account-giving.

Accountability (or blameworthiness) does not alter camera perspective bias even though high accountability yield a more careful and thorough processing of information.

One must be at fault, and one's blameworthiness must take the form of dolus (intention) or culpa (negligence).

Wickedness connotes blameworthiness.

This passage suggests that the law should, and does, draw a distinction between the blameworthiness of acts and omissions, even where the omission is deliberate.

Jocasta and Ulysses snorted simultaneously, making it reasonably clear what they thought of the blameworthiness of Betty's action.

You present convincing evidence of the blameworthiness of Bill Keller, the executive editor, in the Judith Miller episodes.

According to the retributivist explanation of punishment, two offences that have the same punishment should be fairly similar in terms of the harmfulness and blameworthiness.

Such deviance tends to be unbounded in time, providing for a continuing relationship between enforcer and potential deviant, and the matter of blameworthiness is often questionable.

The moral blameworthiness of the accused must be proportional to the punishment; thus there must be proof beyond a reasonable doubt of subjective foresight.