With Crime and Punishment at the Kennedy Center, American Ballet Theatre once again bets on a literary ballet to draw in ...

According to the Constitution, punishment can be set by Congress ... The actual punishments for those convicted of the federal crime of treason have generally been more lenient than the statutory ...

The debate on whether the death penalty deters and lowers rates of crime is a long-simmering one, with both sides variously ...

Someone commits a crime, and they are removed from their community – no questions asked. No one asks why they did it, what ...

Part of History Crime and punishment in Britain ... migrants brought the idea of socialism to London with them and set up socialist organisations such as the International Working Men’s ...

In the late 19th century, prisons were still run along the lines of hard labour and harsh punishment ... more common to argue that people turned to crime as a result of their circumstances ...

A modern adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, set in contemporary Helsinki. Raskolnikov, a struggling law student, commits a brutal murder, believing himself above the law.