Dostoevsky, in writing Crime and Punishment, used many aspects of his personal life as inspiration for many of the main ideas and concepts presented in the novel. His time in prison and in Siberia coupled with the murder of his father at a young age deeply entrenched the idea that suffering leads to salvation. He expresses this in his book by having Rasolnikov continually suffer after his murders and only reaches a sane and guilt free existence only after he confesses his crime and is sent to prison.
Current events of the time also affected the way he wrote many of the pivotal moments in the story. His obsession with death lead Dostoevsky to bring the descriptions of a real life murder into his book through the near exact telling of the murder in Crime and Punishment. The psychological movement also appears in the book as Raskolnikov's sister reacts to his confession by asking him to go to France for help, the epicenter of most of the psychological studies at the time.
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