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Omission is understood to be any act of refraining from acting, as well as carelessness or negligence in carrying out a obligation. Omission means that someone stops or avoids doing something with or without a purpose. In some cases, when talking about issues where you have to watch the jurisprudence or ethics, the omission can be understood as a crime and turn whoever carries it out (voluntarily or not) into a criminal. The omission always implies a negative vision of a way of acting.

An act of omission is basically avoiding taking a specific action. This situation of omission can occur, as has been said, voluntarily or involuntarily. Examples of both cases can be when inviting a person to a ceremony is omitted or when someone's birthday is omitted. In general, however, the notion of omission is more related to an involuntary or erroneous act and not extremely thoughtful.

In any case, the possibility that an act of omission is committed without bad faith and due to carelessness, in some cases may still be punishable by

punishment if it is about omissions that have to do with ethical issues. In this sense, when a person omits to help another person who is helpless, or when an individual omits the urgent needs of another, his omission can come to be understood as a crime due to carelessness or negligence. Another very common case of this type of omission is that which happens when a person suffers some type of crime (Stole, assault) and another person fails to assist or defend her. In this specific case, the one who commits the act of omission can be seen as an accomplice of the one who committed the crime and therefore be punished for it.

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