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Since 2007 & the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as President of the French Republic, the debate on the academic & political legitimacy of a discipline called "criminology" has been ongoing in France, along with the concern raised by the setting up of a string of institutions aiming at the centralization & control of the statistical production on crime and, broadly speaking, of the production of knowledge on safety & justice. These processes are supported by a network of actors sharing a police-oriented conception of this science (ie., knowledge on crime has criminals' arrest as sole objective). This article tries to objectivize this dogma & the networks devoted to its implementation. Adapted from the source document.