{"id":"01KFE0CV50FHNMBGHWTRF922C6","cid":"bafkreicbypnacxkjuxiiofqq6wnw3nfe4yjlp3to6mjrlqcfcmkak3cveu","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreidzwsvluquieamtfwqvf3yqluviswlvf7ldw5dzn7mhgamrntk3sa","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0152.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768922966659-z497u1bvpm","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0152.jpg","page_number":152,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":195854,"text":"144 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nHe did not know how to rob; he could only murder. It was his\nfirst crime, I assure you, his first crime; he lost his head. And he\ngot oflf more by luck than good counsel!\"\n\"You are talking of the murder of the old pawnbroker, I\nbelieve?\" Pyotr Petrovitch put in, addressing Zossimov. He\nwas standing, hat and gloves in hand, but before departing he\nfelt disposed to throw oflf a few more intellectual phrases. He\nwas evidently anxious to make a favourable impression and his\nvanity overcame his prudence.\n\"Yes. You've heard of it?\"\n\"Oh, yes, being in the neighbourhood.\"\n\"Do you know the details?\"\n\"I can't say that; but another circumstance interests me\nin the case — the whole question, so to say. Not to speak of the\nfact that crime has been greatly on the increase among the\nlower classes during the last five years, not to speak of the\ncases of robbery and arson everywhere, what strikes me as the\nstrangest thing is that in the higher classes, too, crime is increas-\ning proportionately. In one place one hears of a student's rob-\nbing the mail on the high road; in another place people of good\ntocial position forge false banknotes; in Moscow of late a whole\ngang has been captured who used to forge lottery tickets, and\none of the ringleaders was a lecturer in universal history; then\nour secretary abroad was murdered from some obscure motive\nof gain. . . . And if this old woman, the pawnbroker, has been\nmurdered by some one of a higher class in society — for peasants\ndon't pawn gold trinkets — how are we to explain this demorali-\nsation ofthe civilised part of our society?\"\n\"There are many economic changes,\" put in Zossimov.\n\"How are we to explain it?\" Razumihin caught him up.\n\"It might be explained by our inveterate impracticality.\"\n\"How do you mean?\"\n\"What answer had your lecturer in Moscow to make to the\nquestion why he was forging notes? 'Everybody is getting rich\none way or another, so I want to make haste to get rich too.'\nI don't remember the exact words, but the upshot was that he\nwants money for nothing, without waiting or working! \"We've\ngrown used to having everything ready-made, to walking on\ncrutches, to having our food chewed for us. Then the great","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:29:26.659Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KFCZZ05FKVDDMJJV3YE9Q4WH","peer_label":"crimepunishment00dostiala.pdf","peer_type":"file","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KESYJX0Z6XE0HWTS5N3SDG0B","peer_label":"The Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-20T15:29:27.337Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:29:28.411Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}