Crime and Punishment

noun

1. a novel (1866) by Feodor Dostoevsky.

Crime and Punishment

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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Bowie was particularly fascinated by crime and punishment.

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

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In a new report, The State of the System: Understanding the Scale of Crime and Punishment in India, the think-tank has produced the country's first comprehensive database of crimes, mapping the extent of criminalisation across 370 federal laws.

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The report also talks about some glaring inconsistencies in crime and punishment.

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The signs include “identification of enemies as a unifying cause,” “controlled mass media,” “corporate power protected,” “labor power suppressed,” “disdain for intellectuals and the arts,” “obsession with crime and punishment,”and “rampant cronyism & corruption.”

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