Crime and Punishment his initial version remains a matter of speculation. According to Joseph Frank, "one possibility is that his protagonist began to develop beyond the boundaries in which he had first been conceived". The notebooks indicate that Dostoevsky became aware of the emergence of new aspects of Raskolnikov's character as the plot developed, and he structured the novel in conformity with this "metamorphosis". The final version of "Crime and Punishment" came into being only when, in November 1865, Dostoevsky decided to recast his novel in the third person. This shift was the culmination of a long struggle, present through all the early
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