{"id":392,"date":"2025-07-21T12:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/?p=392"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:01:40","slug":"video-why-you-should-read-crime-and-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/video-why-you-should-read-crime-and-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Video | &#8220;Why Should you Read &#8216;Crime and Punishment&#8217;?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This TED-Ed video by Alex Gendler introduces criminology students to key concepts like rational choice, guilt, and moral reasoning through Dostoevsky\u2019s Crime and Punishment. It explores how Raskolnikov justifies murder and is ultimately undone by conscience, making it a powerful tool for discussing psychological and ethical dimensions of crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why should you read \u201cCrime and Punishment\u201d? - Alex Gendler\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vtkv3-endYc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This TED-Ed video by Alex Gendler introduces criminology students to key concepts like rational choice, guilt, and moral reasoning through Dostoevsky\u2019s Crime and Punishment. It explores how Raskolnikov justifies murder and is ultimately undone by conscience, making it a powerful tool for discussing psychological and ethical dimensions of crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-foundations-of-criminology","category-video","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crj-102-criminology-oer-course-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}