It's about serious long-term thinking: analysing what's gone wrong with our criminal justice system, and developing serious plans to put it right.
CO2 Tech Ltd, a publicly traded company based in London that claimed to sell products for combating global warming, found itself on the wrong side of criminal fraud charges brought by the U.S. Department of Justice last week.
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And being incompetent at the job you hold, being over-promoted, even being wrong, these are not criminal offences.
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They can still easily find themselves on the wrong side of a whopping civil or criminal penalty.
Such a strategy is relatively rare in white-collar criminal cases because of the danger something will go wrong during cross-examination by prosecutors.
The law is interested in whether or not someone at the time that the criminal act occurred understood the difference between right and wrong.
But install the wrong software on it, and you might still be a criminal.
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And we need a criminal justice system that scores a clear and heavy line between right and wrong.
Ms Hussein says she has done nothing wrong under Sharia law, but could fall foul of a paragraph in Sudanese criminal law that forbids indecent clothing.
Yes, certainly, there were those committing criminal acts but the vast majority of the problems were caused by people simply getting things wrong, not doing something wrong.
Tontines have been outlawed by most states out of a fear they would incite the sort of criminal conniving featured in comic fiction (for example, a 1996 Simpsons episode and the 1966 film The Wrong Box).
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