What's the difference between culprit and perpetrator?

Culprit


Definition:

  • (p. p.) One accused of, or arraigned for, a crime, as before a judge.
  • (p. p.) One quilty of a fault; a criminal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No one was convicted of a crime, or even arrested before her death, although the identities of the main culprits were known to police and council officials.
  • (2) If the leavers are seeking a culprit, they need only look in the mirror.
  • (3) In the end, the culprit is Burma because it is Burma where there is an issue,” Abbott said.
  • (4) But no one was convicted of a crime, or even arrested before her death, although the identities of the main culprits were known to police and council officials.
  • (5) The mean age was 50 years, male patients were more frequent, the predominant area of infarct was anterior wall and more frequently the "culprit" coronary was the left anterior descendent.
  • (6) Since DES has been proven a culprit in offspring malformations, the burden of proof that oral contraceptives in general do not provoke similar offspring changes is on the health community.
  • (7) Previously the culprit had pressed her face into the ground, so that she aspirated particles of soil.
  • (8) In 3 cases with single vessel disease of the LAD, inferior wall of the basis showed reduced uptake of BMIPP despite the location of the culprit lesion.
  • (9) Director Charles Ferguson made his debut with No End in Sight, which spotlighted the US occupation of Iraq; with Inside Job, he identifies a different kind of crime scene, buttonholing the culprits in their palatial boardrooms and forcing them to confess.
  • (10) "Not just because it's wrong to expect officers to endure profanities, but it's also because of the experience of the culprits.
  • (11) The culprits can be easily identified in a dysfunctional Greece as well as among the dogmatists dominating the country's eurozone creditors.
  • (12) Ischemic electrocardiographic changes were more sensitive in predicting LV dysfunction with culprit lesion location in the left anterior descending or right coronary artery.
  • (13) Give it back.” A major culprit is de-industrialisation.
  • (14) Many entertainment trades have blamed the casting of Michael Fassbender in the titular role as the main culprit in the film’s failure to cross over.
  • (15) The origin of the hackers is still unknown, although North Korea remains a possible culprit despite denying it was behind the sophisticated attack that would have challenged even government cyber-defences.
  • (16) She puts this down to the common culprits: stress, depression and the mojo-sapping anxieties of the age of austerity.
  • (17) Sweet suspects another culprit in the gendered, highly sexist toy market is the male dominance at the top of toy and advertising companies, and in Pink and Blue, Paoletti suggests another intriguing idea: that the rise of ultrasounds during pregnancy has contributed to the triumph of gendered colour codes.
  • (18) "Culprit" parathyroid glands are those typically enlarged and histologically abnormal glands that are credited with causing PHP in a given patient.
  • (19) But the culprit cannot have sought simply to damage a wall or cause death and injury.
  • (20) When snipers killed more than 50 protesters and wounded 1,000 on the Friday of Dignity , it was the young who arrested the culprits; not one was attacked or injured, despite the anger and the blood that had flowed in the streets.

Perpetrator


Definition:

  • (n.) One who perpetrates; esp., one who commits an offense or crime.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The psychiatric experts classified 11 of the perpetrators as "normal," 3 as abnormal, and 2 as psychotic.
  • (2) Apnea monitoring did not prevent, and in fact perpetrated the illusion of SIDS in this infant.
  • (3) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
  • (4) Let us be clear: these children are victims, not perpetrators,” he said.
  • (5) The perpetrator was either a relative or a "trusted other" in 97.2% of sexual abuse cases.
  • (6) Reports of violence associated with delusional misidentification are reviewed and four patients described who were either perpetrators or victims of assaults as a consequence of the syndromes of Frégoli, Intermetamorphosis, Subjective Doubles and Capgras.
  • (7) At least half of the perpetrators in 100 rampages studied by the New York Times were found to have signs of serious mental health issues, and it was reported last week that Adam Lanza's mother was in the process of having him committed when he embarked on the Newtown rampage.
  • (8) Even when things are taken more seriously, harassers are generally allowed to leave quietly, which enables them to move some place else and do the same thing.” Many of the women who made complaints to their institutions said they felt they were the ones on trial, while alleged perpetrators were often protected by management who feared losing a star researcher and their funding.
  • (9) Violence appears to mobilise people against the perpetrators, the study found.
  • (10) The court itself concluded that 'torture is perpetrated systematically by the General Intelligence Directorate'.
  • (11) For me, this is what needs to change - we need a cultural shift in our attitudes and behaviours and that needs to see all of us standing up and calling out harassment and misogyny, whether it is in the street or the workplace, to erode that normalisation that makes perpetrators feel safe doing it again and again.
  • (12) After her release, she confirmed that she had been pressured by threats and menaces to confess to criminal acts that she had never perpetrated.
  • (13) It says family violence involves partners, siblings, parents, children and distant family members, yet the state’s approach “responds almost exclusively to adult female victims (and dependent children) and adult male perpetrators ...
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.
  • (15) A disproportionate number of those who are victims and perpetrators of knife crime are African-Caribbean.
  • (16) The DSM-III diagnoses made on discharge were not related to presence of abuse, age of abuse onset, duration and frequency of abuse, or relationship of the victim to the perpetrator.
  • (17) The reality is the perpetrators of these crimes are overwhelmingly men.
  • (18) They only have to hear the voice of the perpetrator and they’re in this dissociative state,” Miller said.
  • (19) It explains the failure to unearth evidence of assassination: because state-appointed aviation experts conducted the investigation, their conclusion that it had been an accident proves that the state remains in the hands of the perpetrators (Law and Justice defence minister Antoni Macierewicz described their investigation as the greatest cover-up “in the history of the world”).
  • (20) Using a definition under which adolescent relationship abuse can occur in person or through electronic means, in public or private, and between current or past dating partners , the survey estimates that 25 million US adolescents are victims and nearly 23 million are perpetrators.