In criminal law, recklessness involves consciously disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk that a particular harmful result will occur, differing from intentionality and negligence. Recklessness requires knowledge of the risk and a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a law-abiding person would observe.
For example: Shooting into a crowd is reckless because it knowingly ignores the high risk of injuring someone, unlike negligence, which would not involve awareness of the risk.