Crime and Punishment is a deep and complex psychological novel by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. A man named Raskolnikov kills a woman to prove to himself a philosophical point and the story revolves around him dealing with his crumbling psyche in the aftermath of the crime, the social consequences and the lengths a man could go to scape from himself. Raskolnikov is a strange character that embodies humanity's fight against society and its ru...