This book - now available in paperback - offers a set of essays examining the positive obligations of individuals and the state in matters of criminal law. The centerpiece is a new extended essay on the criminalization of omissions: examining the duties to act, imposed on individuals and organizations by criminal law, and assessing their moral and social foundations. Alongside this is another essay on the State's positive obligations to put in place criminal laws to protect certain individual rights. Introducing the book is the author's much-cited essay on criminalization: 'Is the Criminal...