What is the difference between legal responsibility and social (public) responsibility?

Legal liability consists in imposing on the person who committed the offense, the sanctions enshrined in the law, containing specific adverse consequences. In turn, social responsibility is an exclusively moral and ethical criterion, which boils down to the impact of public opinion on a person and consists in public censure. The mechanism for the implementation of legal responsibility is law, and social responsibility is morality, morality, conscience, and shame. Social responsibility does not have any legal consequences.



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