Endangerment

Endangerment

In US law, endangerment comprises several types of crimes involving conduct that is wrongful and reckless or wanton, and likely to produce death or grievous bodily harm to another person.

The offense is intended to prohibit and therefore deter reckless or wanton conduct that wrongfully creates a substantial risk of death or serious injury to others.

The law specifies several types of endangerment:

  • Child endangerment: placing a child in a potentially harmful situation, either through negligence or misconduct.
  • Reckless endangerment: A person commits the crime of reckless endangerment if the person recklessly engages in conduct which creates a substantial risk of serious physical injury to another person. “Reckless” conduct is conduct that exhibits a culpable disregard of foreseeable consequences to others from the act or omission involved. The accused need not intentionally cause a resulting harm or know that his conduct is substantially certain to cause that result. The ultimate question is whether, under all the circumstances, the accused’s conduct was of that heedless nature that made it actually or imminently dangerous to the rights or safety of others.

Endangerment can range from a misdemeanor to a felony.

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  • endangerment — en·dan·ger·ment n: the crime or tort of exposing others to possible harm or danger Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. endangerment …   Law dictionary

  • Endangerment — En*dan ger*ment, n. Hazard; peril. Milton. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • endangerment — 1640s, from ENDANGER (Cf. endanger) + MENT (Cf. ment) …   Etymology dictionary

  • endangerment — endanger ► VERB ▪ put in danger. DERIVATIVES endangerment noun …   English terms dictionary

  • endangerment — noun see endanger …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • endangerment — See endanger. * * * …   Universalium

  • endangerment — noun a) The act of putting someone into danger, or the condition of being in danger b) The exposure of someone, especially a child, to danger or harm …   Wiktionary

  • endangerment — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Exposure to possible harm, loss, or injury: danger, hazard, imperilment, jeopardy, peril, risk. See SAFETY …   English dictionary for students

  • endangerment — n. state of being in danger, imperilment …   English contemporary dictionary

  • endangerment — en·dan·ger·ment …   English syllables

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