1 Whether there is such a thing as crime.
2 Almost a year and a half has passed since his crime.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 3 Your attitude to crime is pretty clear to me now, but.
4 It was his first crime, I assure you, his first crime; he lost his head.
5 All the strange and peculiar circumstances of the crime were taken into consideration.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 6 Yes, and you maintained that the perpetration of a crime is always accompanied by illness.
7 I've never, never recognised this more clearly than now, and I am further than ever from seeing that what I did was a crime.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VII 8 All these questions about crime, environment, children, recall to my mind an article of yours which interested me at the time.
9 But extraordinary men have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the law in any way, just because they are extraordinary.
10 But they immediately drew the deduction that the crime could only have been committed through temporary mental derangement, through homicidal mania, without object or the pursuit of gain.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 11 Here we see resolution in the first stage, but resolution of a special kind: he resolved to do it like jumping over a precipice or from a bell tower and his legs shook as he went to the crime.
12 We will make a clean sweep of all these psychological points, of a suspicion against you, so that your crime will appear to have been something like an aberration, for in truth it was an aberration.
13 The question whether the disease gives rise to the crime, or whether the crime from its own peculiar nature is always accompanied by something of the nature of disease, he did not yet feel able to decide.
14 When he reached these conclusions, he decided that in his own case there could not be such a morbid reaction, that his reason and will would remain unimpaired at the time of carrying out his design, for the simple reason that his design was "not a crime."
15 Not to speak of the fact that crime has been greatly on the increase among the lower classes during the last five years, not to speak of the cases of robbery and arson everywhere, what strikes me as the strangest thing is that in the higher classes, too, crime is increasing proportionately.
16 It was his conviction that this eclipse of reason and failure of will power attacked a man like a disease, developed gradually and reached its highest point just before the perpetration of the crime, continued with equal violence at the moment of the crime and for longer or shorter time after, according to the individual case, and then passed off like any other disease.
17 But you must observe this, my dear Rodion Romanovitch, the general case, the case for which all legal forms and rules are intended, for which they are calculated and laid down in books, does not exist at all, for the reason that every case, every crime, for instance, so soon as it actually occurs, at once becomes a thoroughly special case and sometimes a case unlike any that's gone before.
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