Is the criminal law a lost cause? -- Criminalising omissions -- Ignorance of the criminal law, and duties to avoid it -- Should strict criminal liability be removed from all imprisonable offences? -- A change of normative position : determining the contours of culpability in criminal law -- The unfairness of risk-based possession offences -- Child defendants and the doctrines of the criminal law -- Human rights and positive obligations to create particular criminal offences.