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
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
James Forman Jr. divides his superb and shattering first book, “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America,” into two parts: “Origins” and “Consequences.”
From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2017
Beneath it an elderly, round-faced woman sat reading Crime and Punishment.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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