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Crime and Punishment

American  

noun

  1. a novel (1866) by Feodor Dostoevsky.


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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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 darker the night, as Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote in Crime and Punishment, the brighter the stars.

From Science Magazine Jun. 11, 2018

How deliciously ironic that Mueller's investigation is playing out like Dostoyevski's "Crime and Punishment".

From New York Times Mar. 28, 2018

I read "Crime and Punishment" that same year, in the Constance Garnett translation, not for a class but because I spent so much time in the school library browsing the shelves.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 2017

Beneath it an elderly, round-faced woman sat reading Crime and Punishment.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

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