... of criminal responsibility: should we becriminally responsible only for actions in this sense? We are now focusingon what might interest the criminal law. Whilst the criminal law is notinterested ... they would be wrong even if no part of the law took any interest in them.35An increasing proportion of the criminal law, however, dealsnot with mala in se, but with mala prohibita, involving ... good reason for criminalisation.20One couldinterpret this in consequentialist terms: the, or an, aim of the criminal law is to prevent such immorality, by criminalising and punishing it.21I...