Title	Cruising St Petersburg’s Mean Streets
Creator	McReynolds, Louise
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	When he wrote that "down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean," crime novelist Raymond Chandler was introducing his detective as a knight errant, the last defender of virtue in a virtue-less world. But in Crime and Punishment, the killer ultimately displays greater righteousness than the investigator tracking him down. Dostoevsky's fiction impacted the morality of factual criminality in late imperial Russia, as he also inserted himself into true crimes as a journalist. Despite the sympathetic profile Dostoevsky afforded his killers, though, men who were indeed themselves mean cruised the capital, and their actions provide a context in which to better understand Dostoevsky's conceptualization of criminal behavior and appropriate punishment.
Subject	CP150; Dostoevsky; Social justice vs. rule of law; Sensational journalism; Psychiatry; Jury trials; Narration
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	10.14288/1.0397372
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78236
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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