In this chapter, which deals mainly with criminal law responses to the social and economic changes after 2010 in Hungary, I address three questions. After outlining the general situation of the Hungarian legal system and the role that criminal law should play, I will first examine the actual responses of criminal legislation in substantive provisions of the law to the criminal phenomena of the last decade; in the second part, I will look at the legislative responses in the field of procedural law; and finally, I will make some comments on a related issue, the relationship between the criminal law framework and responsiveness. I argue that criminal law has, in recent years, completely lost its rightly perceived ultima ratio character and has become an almost primary, but at the same time rather arbitrary, regulatory instrument in many areas.