Crime and PunishmentYoung law student Rodion Raskolnikov lives in poverty in St. Petersburg. In desperation, he sells the last of his valuables, a watch, to an elderly pawnbroker. But what the pawnbroker doesn't know is that Raskolnikov is rehearsing the crime he has resolved to commit: to rob and murder her. Though the robbery will service his own needsand that of his family who has sacrificed for him to studyRaskolnikov feels he is righting a wrong committed by the old