Fifty years of crime in Criminologie
Classic and neoclassic approaches in criminology take the criminal act as the basic unit of analysis. While this approach had been abandoned by many researchers, the 1968 publication of Crime and Punishment : An Economic Approach by Gary S. Becker, as well as subsequent publications, led some researchers to return to detailed investigations of how crimes are committed. This article analyzes the place of the criminal act in articles published in Criminologie since its beginnings in 1968. After a brief look at the principles of the classical school of criminology, it shows that only 11 articles analyze crime itself. These articles are analyzed to see if they have any points in common. The article ends with observations about future publication of research on criminal acts in Criminologie.