《罪与罚》是一部卓越的社会心理小说，是为陀思妥耶夫斯基赢得世界性声誉的代表作。小说以主人公犯罪及犯罪后受到良心和道德惩罚为主线，广泛地描写了俄国城市贫民走投无路的悲惨境遇和日趋尖锐的社会矛盾。作者怀着真切的同情和满腔的激愤，将19世纪60年代沙俄京城的黑暗、赤贫、绝望和污浊一起无情地展现在读者面前。(Crime and Punishment is an excellent novel of social psychology, and a masterpiece that helps Dostoevsky win the world fame. The novel,focusing on crimes committed by the hero and mental anguish and moral punishments he received after the crime. It depicts the misery situation and increasingly worse social conflicts confronted by poor urban lower-class people. With great sympathy and anger, the author unfolds the darkness, extreme poverty, desperatin and filth in the capital city of Tsarist Russia in the 1860s.)