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 darker the night, as Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote in Crime and Punishment, the brighter the stars.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 11, 2018
The nonfiction prize went to “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America,” a book by James Forman Jr. that traced the history of contemporary criminal justice.
From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2018
Raskolnikov, the deracinated former law student in Crime and Punishment, is the psychopath of instrumental rationality, who can work up evidently logical reasons to do anything he desires.
From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2015
Beneath it an elderly, round-faced woman sat reading Crime and Punishment.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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