Reckless homicide
Reckless homicide is a
failure to act when there is a legal duty to act) creates significant risk of death or grievous bodily harm in the victim, but ignores the risk and continues to act (or fail to act), and a human death results.[1] It is contrasted with negligent homicide, in which the perpetrator did not have the awareness of the risk, but should have had it.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4548-0698-1