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
The Number (book) The Number (book) The Number - book about South Africa’s criminal tradition, was written by Jonny Steinberg. The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs is the award-winning book that tells about crime and punishment in ghettos of Cape Town and won South Africa’s premier nonfiction literary award, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Prize. Prison gangs are one of the primary vehicles for the committing the violence. But unfortunately very little is known about prison violence and how it appears. Jonny Steinberg made a research on prison gangs based in Pollsmoor prison resulting in