Almost 200,000 people were prosecuted last year for failing to buy a television licence.
I even saw a woman prosecuted last week for not having read Gone Girl.
Almost half of the misdemeanors that were prosecuted last year — 423 cases — are domestic battery cases, and most of the rest are shoplifting, drugs and assault.
Article 301 of the penal code, under which Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's best-known novelist, was prosecuted last year, remains on the books.
The Observer and Guardian were prosecuted last year for refusing to hand over notes the state alleged we had of conversations with Shayler.
Another former high-value C.I.A. prisoner, Ahmed Ghailani, was transferred from Guantánamo to the civilian criminal justice system and prosecuted last year in New York for his role in Al Qaeda's 1998 bombings of embassies in Africa.
Servcorp UK and Regus, two serviced office providers, were prosecuted last year, under the 2007 London Local Authorities Act, for allowing suspected boiler room fraudsters to operate on their watch.
Figures obtained by the Press Association showed that 16,430 people in England were prosecuted last year for failing to ensure that a child went to school – with about three-quarters (12,479) found guilty.
Might Blair be prosecuted next year, then?
The RSPCA prosecuted 1,341 individuals and secured 3,114 convictions last year.
Last year the CPS prosecuted 3,819 defendants for rape.
