Crime and Punishment
Americannoun
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One change that appears new is the ratification of a Federal Crime and Punishment Law, effective from Jan. 2, 2022, designed to better protect women, domestic staff and public safety.
From Reuters • Nov. 27, 2021
The book I’m most ashamed not to have read I’m not really ashamed that I haven’t read Tolstoy’s War and Peace or Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2020
The darker the night, as Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote in Crime and Punishment, the brighter the stars.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 11, 2018
"Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016" by Frank Bidart won the honors in poetry, and "Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America" by James Forman Jr. won the award in general nonfiction.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2018
Beneath it an elderly, round-faced woman sat reading Crime and Punishment.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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