Title	Dostoevskying the Law School Curriculum
Creator	Ronner, Amy
Contributor	Crime and Punishment at 150 (2016 : Vancouver, B.C.); University of British Columbia. Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies; Green College (University of British Columbia)
Date Issued	2016-10-21
Description	Dostoevsky wrote Demons, A Writer’s Diary, The Brothers Karamazov, and Crime and Punishment in the wake of Russia’s legal reforms, which had a profound effect on his thinking. For example, Dostoevsky based Demons on the public trial of Bakunin’s notorious protégé, Nechaev, who was convicted of ordering the murder of the student Ivanov. In A Writer’s Diary, a mélange of fiction, journalism, and autobiography, Dostoevsky engrossed himself in jury trials and sporadically carped at legal outcomes, new defense strategies, and the then-fashionable treatment of hostile socioeconomic forces as the guilty culprits. Dostoevsky also denounced courtroom histrionics and the exploitation of rhetoric whereby deft lawyers could, by waxing poetic, effectively recast victims into perpetrators (or vice versa). Similarly, in The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky evokes humbling incertitude about crime, guilt, and a justice system comprised of players driven primarily by self-interest. Such critiques remain relevant today.
Subject	CP150; Dostoevsky; Crime and Punishment; Confessions; Prisons; Crimes; Socioeconomic forces
Geographic Location	Russia; United States
Type	Moving Image
Language	eng
Date Available	2021-05-10
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0397378
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78245
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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