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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"crime and punishment"”.
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"Numerological Code in Dostoevsky's ""Crime and Punishment"
… that follow are devoted to an analysis of Crime and Punishment, in which certain numbers are repeated throughout the text. These repetitions are not random, they are carefully planned numerological devices used symbolically by Dostoevsky to underline his major themes. This study reveals the …
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The Economics of Crime and Punishment: A Computational Approach
Emergent characteristics of crime rates and law enforcement are observed empiricallyin cities. For example, spatial clustering of crimes is observed. It is difficult to explain this clustering with Becker's crime model using representative agents. We extend Becker's model using an agent-based …
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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment Raskolnikov: Image of a Modern Man
… his characters skillfully in the play of Rem- brandtesque lighting. Like Rembrandt, Dostoevsky focuses hie attention on the dark side of man, and the only light that is visible comes from within the depths of man himself. When Dostoevsky created characters, he began with their innermost thoughts …
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Public Attitudes towards Crime and Punishment in Greece and the Factors Underlying their Construction
Public opinion regarding crime-related issues is a challenging matter for researchers and politicians alike. An ill-informed public with regards to crime, punishment and other aspects of the criminal justice system leads to discontent and demands for harsher policies to strengthen public safety. …
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Crime and punishment in the Delaware River area, 1740-1790, as reported in the Philadelphia newspapers
This study is concerned with crime and its punishment in the colonies along the Delaware during the period from 1740-1790. The criminal code which was-in force during this period was the harsh English criminal law. A long list, of crimes were designated as capital offenses. The list included the …
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Bidding at the prison auction house: An exchange of prisoners' and university students' perceptions of crime and punishment
… an arena for undergraduate Criminology majors and residents of a correctional facility to discuss and learn about issues within the criminal justice system. The class took place at a correctional facility. After leaving the class, the students were expected to write a reflection paper on the …
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Semiotics and Christian Discipleship in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s <em>Crime and Punishment</em> and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s <em>The Cost of Discipleship</em>
<p>The literary and philosophical theory of semiotics considers signs and symbols. Pragmatics is the branch of semiotics that explicates the practical effects of a given interpretation according to its context. Through analyzing the pragmatic context of <em>Crime and Punishment</em>, one can begin …
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Internal Punishment: A Psychoanalytical Reading of F. M. Dostoevskyʼs Crime and Punishment (1866), L. Rebreanuʼs Ciuleandra (1927) and P. Ackroydʼs Hawksmoor (1985)
This doctoral thesis examines the representations and dynamics of crime and inner punishment in a range of European literary works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: F.M. Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (Преступлeние и наказaние, 1866), L. Rebreanu’s Ciuleandra (1927) and P. Ackroyd’s …
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"""Too Much Time for the Crime I Done"": Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Punishment in Illinois and South Carolina, 1865 to 1900"
… as a nexus where society's ideas about region and politics, crime and punishment, race and ethnicity clashed with the violent reality of prison life helps illustrate how minority groups forged an identity in opposition to the broader values of the nation. Such findings contribute directly to …
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Unobtrusively Measuring Racial Attitudes: The Consequences of Social Desirability Effects
… racial attitudes but also about their correlates and consequences. In one of these chapters, I present evidence suggesting that social desirability effects are the reason most previous studies failed to find a relationship between symbolic racism and individualism. In the other, I investigate the …
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Exploring the Support Networks of those Caring for Loved Ones on Texas Death Row
Supporters of death row inmates suffer greatly and endure many hardships related to caring for a loved one on Texas’ death row. This study aims to understand the support networks developed by caretakers of capital offenders, along with their current needs and barriers. While the research …
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Renderings of the Abyss: some changing nineteenth-century literary perceptions of the animal / human divide.
… aim of this thesis is to amalgamate philosophy and history of science with literature to achieve an overview of changing ideas of the animal/human divide during the nineteenth century. Drawing on the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julia Kristeva and Giorgio Agamben. I consider …
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Lustmord and Loving the Other: A History of Sexual Murder in Modern Germany and Austria (1873-1932)
<italic>Lustmord</italic> and Loving the Other: A History of Sexual Murder in Modern Germany and Austria: 1873–1932) examines the historical significance of German–speaking Europeans’ responses to crises of modernity vis–Ã –vis their fin de siècle cultural …
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Criminal Justice in British Playwriting and Theatre Practice, 1979-2017
… through the art of playwriting/dramaturgy and theatre practice. It investigates how playwrights, and theatre companies have created and curated these narratives by employing a spectrum of techniques from the conventional to the immersive play, from forum theatre to cognitive behavioural …
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Anarchist Abolitionism: The Context and Meaning of Kropotkin's Prison Writings
… debatable topic. Its main aims are to deter and reform criminals, but recent reports show high recidivism rates which suggests that the prison does not work in reducing crime. Penal abolitionists oppose the current use of the prison and wish for its removal. In line with their views, Peter …
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Gay men and suicidality : an exploration of the significant biographical experiences fore-grounded during childhood, adolescence and early adulthood of some gay men who have engaged in suicidality
… comparing representative samples of gay, lesbian and bisexual youths with heterosexual controls, report increased rates of mental health problems and subsequent suicide among the homosexual population. Whilst current healthcare policy in England is concerned with suicides among young people, the …
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From Social Welfare to Social Control: Federal War in American Cities, 1968-1988
The first historical account of federal crime control policy, "From Social Welfare to Social Control" contextualizes the mass incarceration of marginalized Americans by illuminating the process that gave rise to the modern carceral state in the decades after the Civil Rights Movement. The …
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A cognitive stylistics study of the Nama-Herero genocide in Kubuitsile’s the scattering, Utley’s lie of the land, Tjingaete’s the weeping graves of our ancestors and Van Den Berg’s parts unknown
… Scattering (2016), Jaspar D. Utley’s Lie of the Land (2017), Rukee Tjingaete’s The Weeping Graves of our Ancestors (2017) and Zirk van den Berg’s Parts Unknown (2018). The four novels were chosen because they present the Nama-Herero genocide, which took place from 1904 -1908 where over 65,000 …
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Genealogies of Resistance to Incarceration: Abolition Politics within Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Prison Activism in the U.S.
… politics within de-institutionalization and anti- prison activism in the U.S." looks at two main sites in which abolition of "total institutions" is enacted. The first site is activism around penal and prison abolition. The second site is deinstitutionalization- the move to close down …
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