Crime and Punishment the two halves of the novel, as David Bethea has argued, is organized according to a mirror-like principle, whereby the "left" half of the novel reflects the "right" half. The seventh part of the novel, the Epilogue, has attracted much attention and controversy. Some of Dostoevsky's critics have criticized the novel's final pages as superfluous, anti-climactic, unworthy of the rest of the work, while others have defended it, offering various schemes that they claim prove its inevitability and necessity. Steven Cassedy argues that "Crime and Punishment" "is formally two distinct but closely related, things, namely a particular type of tragedy
Crime & Punishment Crime & Punishment Crime & Punishment is a 2002 reality television, nontraditional court show spin-off of the "Law & Order" franchise. It premiered on NBC on June 16, 2002, and ran through the summers of 2002, 2003, and 2004. The series goes inside the District Attorney's office of San Diego County, California, as they prepared and tried cases. It involved going behind the scenes with the prosecutors as they prepared for the trial and provided three-camera coverage of the courtroom. "Crime & Punishment" has been described as a cross between a drama and a documentary or "docudrama". The series was