The author focuses on the key concept of responsibility, and analyzes the connection between the attribution and assumption of responsibility in the context of the crisis of the welfare state in relation to models of the institutional administration of social problems, the culture of professionals, and the participants in everyday conflicts. The theme of responsibility also emerges in the discussion of relations between care and autonomy expressed in the demands made by collective actors on the criminal justice system. Some of the specific topics examined in these essays deal with juvenile deviance, the criminal responsibility of mentally ill offenders, and radical victimology in relation to sexual crimes.