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

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 book I’m most ashamed not to have read I’m not really ashamed that I haven’t read Tolstoy’s War and Peace or Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2020

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

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

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz