There is an obvious connection between Dostoevsky's work and his personal life. As a young child, his family stayed in an apartment on hospital grounds. The location of this place seemed to resemble that of the novel: city's worst areas, cemetery for criminals, lunatic asylum, etc. Sometimes he would wander out to the hospital garden to spend time with the patients and listen to their stories. His "interest in and compassion for the poor, oppressed, and tormented was apparent in his life and works". Doesn't that sound like something out of Crime And Punishment to you? Well later on in his life, he moved to St. Petersburg (Now we see where he got his locations from) and attends a Military Engineering Institute. This is relevant to the novel because there are mentions of job positions in the Service from which Marmeladov was fired due to his excessive drinking.
The question posed here is, "Is it a crime if no one finds out?" Although others may not agree with me, I believe that a crime is a crime no matter who finds out or not. Let's use Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment as an example here. Raskolnikov murders the pawnbroker, Alyonda Ivanovna, and her sister, Lizaveta. So far no one has found out yet, so why is it still a crime? Because two innocent lives were taken away with no reasoning at all, let alone a good one. Someway, somehow the lost of Alyonda and Lizaveta will affect somebody else's life in a negative manner. If this is not a crime, then what? If anything, Alyonda helped him out by even purchasing his watch. So who is he to have been given the right to take their lives away? Nobody at all! A bad thing was done, it's considered as a crime, end of discussion!
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