Crime and Punishment to coerce him to confess. The novel is divided into six parts, with an epilogue. The notion of "intrinsic duality" in "Crime and Punishment" has been commented upon, with the suggestion that there is a degree of symmetry to the book. Edward Wasiolek who has argued that Dostoevsky was a skilled craftsman, highly conscious of the formal pattern in his art, has likened the structure of "Crime and Punishment" to a "flattened X", saying: This compositional balance is achieved by means of the symmetrical distribution of certain key episodes throughout the novel's six parts. The recurrence of these episodes in
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