Resumo
The author proposes to consider a crime through the construction of a criminal law concept, as an image that includes all possible variations of its manifestation. For this purpose, a process of normalization of the concept has been carried out, in particular, the key feature “activity” has been added and insignificant features have been excluded: guilty and punishability. As a result, an axiomatic concept of a crime is obtained, the volume of which corresponds to objective reality. In addition, the article contains six arguments for the exclusion of signs of guilty and punishability. The concept of “crime”, after establishing a connection with other verified concepts, will form the basis for the development of a new criminal law concept.