Sort each proposed offence by how it fares under the principle of exclusive protection of legal goods.

Protects an identifiable legal good: Water supply poisoning, Serious violence

Protects only a moral sentiment: Harmless private conduct, Harmless unpopular views

Protects a legal good, but a lesser instrument would plainly do: Late routine filings, Loading bay parking

The third column is where the practical argument is. Nobody defends criminalising a distasteful private act these days; a great many people defend criminalising minor administrative failures, and the ultima ratio objection to those is that an administrative sanction protects the same interest at a fraction of the cost to the person and to the courts.