Definicja:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culpability

'In explanations and predictions of human action and inaction, culpability is a measure of the degree to which an agent, such as a person, can be held morally or legally responsible.'

Przykłady:

http://www.adjj.org/downloads/6093issue_brief_3.pdf

'[...] adolescents are different from adults, in ways that make them potentially less blameworthy than adults for their
criminal acts.'

'The ruling centered on the issue of culpability, or criminal blameworthiness. Unlike competence, which concerns an individual’s ability to serve as a defendant during trial or adjudication, culpability
turns on the offender’s state of mind at the time of the offense, including factors that would mitigate, or lessen, the degree of responsibility.'

http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2773616/

'To the extent that developmental immaturity mitigates criminal blameworthiness (Steinberg & Scott, 2003), one might hypothesize that juveniles who are less mature than their same-aged peers would be more likely to be granted probation and less likely to be sent to secure confinement [...]'