{"id":"01KFE0GJJAP2E3XFNSD5JX1DYZ","cid":"bafkreidcdybmvopgit2eoiriootsqwjohqnzemhte474pg6uyjspabyoe4","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreihn32kxorqnc7utwsw3rroeil3vrckzkzruds7cd5a7ucbovc7y7a","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0510.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923089179-c9entkukd6g","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0510.jpg","page_number":510,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":214890,"text":"J02 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nwere a long while trying to discover why the accused man\nshould tell a lie about this, when about everything else he had\nmade a truthful and straightforward confession. Finally some\nof the lawyers more versed in psychology admitted that it was\npossible he had really not looked into the purse, and so didn't\nknow what was in it when he hid it under the stone. But they\nimmediately drew the deduction that the crime could only\nhave been committed through temporary mental derangement,\nthrough homicidal mania, without object or the pursuit of gain.\nThis fell in with the most recent fashionable theory of tem-\nporary insanity, so often applied in our days in criminal cases.\nMoreover Raskolnikov's hypochondriacal condition was proved\nby many witnesses, by Dr. Zossimov, his former fellow students,\nhis landlady and her servant. All this pointed strongly to the\nconclusion that Raskolnikov was not quite like an ordinary\nmurderer and robber, but that there was another element in\nthe case.\nTo the intense annoyance of those who maintained this opin-\nion, the criminal scarcely attempted to defend himself. To the\ndecisive question as to what motive impelled him to the murder\nand the robbery, he answered very clearly with the coarsest\nfrankness that the cause was his miserable position, his poverty\nand helplessness, and his desire to provide for his first steps in\nlife by the help of the three thousand roubles he had reckoned\non finding. He had been led to the murder through his shallow\nand cowardly nature, exasperated moreover by privation and\nfailure. To the question what led him to confess, he answered\nthat it was his heartfelt repentance. All this was almost\ncoarse. . . .\nThe sentence however was more merciful than could have\nbeen expected, perhaps partly because the criminal had not tried\nto justify himself, but had rather shown a desire to exaggerate\nhis guilt. All the strange and peculiar circumstances of the\ncrime were taken into consideration. There could be no doubt of\nthe abnormal and poverty-stricken condition of the criminal at\nthe time. The fact that he had made no use of what he had\nstolen was put down partly to the effect of remorse, partly to his\nabnormal mental condition at the time of the crime. Inciden-\ntally the murder of Lizaveta served indeed to confirm the last\nhypothesis: a man commits two miurders and forgets that the","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:31:29.179Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:31:29.585Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:31:30.609Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}