Criminal negligence
State of mind needed to constitute a conventional criminal offense / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Negligence (disambiguation).
In criminal law, criminal negligence is an offence that involves a breach of an objective standard of behaviour expected of a defendant. It may be contrasted with strictly liable offences, which do not consider states of mind in determining criminal liability, or offenses that requires mens rea, a mental state of guilt.[1]
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