Compléter 258-testVersion en ligne 258-test par Farhad Key 1 instance characterized issues prosecution culpability greed of level of narrative The of law and order is located fundamentally at the level individual guilt and responsibility . Criminal acts are seen as individual issues of personal responsibility and , to which the state responds by way of policing , , adjudication and punishment . This is but one at which crime and criminal justice can be analyzed . The problem is that so often analysis ends there , at the level of individual action , in terms of responsibility , guilt , evil . In few other areas of social life does individualism have this hold ? To take but one , it would be absurd to restrict analysis of obesity , to individual . It should similarly be widely seen as absurd to restrict analysis of criminal justice to the culpability individuals .