Abstract
Abstract Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment treats many issues in the legal world: utilitarian versus deontological considerations, motives for crimes, the obligation to obey the law, confessions (both true and false), the significance of remorse, and the goals of punishment. The novel supports the retributive concept of punishment and its various derivations: the concept of punishment as atonement, the concept of the importance of meting out punishment in order to return the offender to his or her moral state, the concept that punishment confirms the true value of the victim and rescinds the pose of superiority that the offender created by the very commission of the offense, and the concept that punishment has the expressive function of conveying a message of condemnation.
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