Crime and Punishment is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Traces the life of a young former student who following the zero ideas that reflect the ideas of the modern society, according to which a bad act can be compensated by many small good deeds then commits two murders to robbery. Expect to find happiness based on utilitarian criteria believed, but faced with the consciousness and then the real battle begins. Dostoyevsky describes in depth and psychographic his novel characters in a battle between nihilism and humanism.