Crime and Punishment

American  

noun

1. a novel (1866) by Feodor Dostoevsky.

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Crime and Punishment Cultural  

1. (1866) A novel by Feodor Dostoyevsky about the poor student Raskolnikov, who kills two old women because he believes that he is beyond the bounds of good and evil. The psychological novel examines Raskolnikov's anguished mind before, during, and after the crime.

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Example Sentences

Yet here we now have “The Final Score”: half a dozen gripping tales of crime and punishment, despair and redemption.

From The Wall Street Journal

Gary Becker’s 1968 classic paper, “Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach,” revolutionized our understanding of crime by treating it as a rational response to expected costs and benefits.

From The Wall Street Journal

For now, it is enough to say that his brush with thievery taught him much about crime and punishment, and the dangers of thinking that doing a wrong thing “just this once” makes it somehow less wrong.

From Literature

Bowie was particularly fascinated by crime and punishment.

From BBC

In “Crime and Punishment,” Dostoevsky wrote that everyone needs a somewhere.

From Los Angeles Times