It is part of human nature to punish, and often cruelly so, but a provocative new book persuasively explains why American punishments remain so relentlessly harsh even in the 21st Century.

The book had unknowingly been bought as part of a lot by a woman from Lancashire A first edition of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, originally bought for £14, has sold at auction for £13,500 ...

Currently, a person arrested for a drug crime within 1,000 feet of a school, day care, public library or park in Tennessee faces a sentence that can put nonviolent first-time offenders in prison ...

A rare ­edition of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, bought in less than £20 at a sale, has fetched £13,500. The novel, first published in English in 1886, was in a box of books picked up ...

For instance, while 2,541 cases were registered between 2017-18 and 2021-22 in 11 selected divisions, about 57 percent of the cases were pending prompt first-level follow-up action such as filing ...

TIME Cover Store Digital Magazine Customer Care. US & Canada ... Crime and Punishment, first translated into English by Fred Wishaw in 1886, is not a courtroom drama.

Since mining courtroom footage for entertainment value is hardly new, Dick Wolf's documentary series "Crime & Punishment" -- the reality version of his omnipresent "Law & Order" franchise -- needs ...

“Crime and Punishment” is the first full-length work for Ballet Theater to be choreographed by a woman. ... Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Raskolnikov, a Murderer in Ballet ...

Warren Allmand was first elected Liberal MP for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in 1965 and retired from federal politics in 1997. (Getty Images) *Due to damage sustained to the original tape reel, the audio ...

Crime and Punishment is one of the most highly regarded works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian novelist born in 1821. He was no stranger to the law, having spent four years in a labour camp after ...

Crime and Punishment may take the average reader several months to complete, but Britain's first "book vending machine" can print you a copy in just nine minutes. A freshly-bound edition of Fyodor ...