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4 Omissions 4.1 Introduction e criminal sanction is, as we have noted, the most serious censure the State can impose on an individual and the imposition of the criminal sanction for doing nothing therefore sounds bizarre. In this chapter we examine the circumstances in which a person can be held crimin- ally liable for not acting as well as for acting. e defendant’s failure to act might not always be so easily described as ‘doing nothing’, and there are many situations in which the imposition of the criminal sancti