Crime and Punishment to Siberia, but Raskolnikov's mother falls ill and dies. Sonya follows Raskolnikov to Siberia, but he is initially hostile towards her as he is still struggling to acknowledge any moral culpability for his crime, feeling himself to be guilty only of weakness. It is only after some time in prison that his redemption and moral regeneration begin under Sonya's loving influence. In "Crime and Punishment", Dostoevsky fuses the personality of his main character, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, with his new anti-radical ideological themes. The main plot involves a murder as the result of "ideological intoxication," and depicts all the disastrous moral
Crime and Human Nature been reviewed by at least 20 publications. The book was particularly controversial because it re-invigorated the nature versus nurture debate in criminology. The book also influenced Herbert Needleman to research the potential link between lead and crime. In 2012, "The Washington Post"s Matt Schudel wrote that the book was "one of [Wilson's] most controversial books". Crime and Human Nature Crime and Human Nature: The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime is a 1985 book about the causes of crime by political scientist James Q. Wilson and psychologist Richard Herrnstein. Wilson and Herrnstein present and critique almost all major theories