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On J.M.
Coetzee's novel The Master of Petersburg, a fictionalized version of Dostoevsky is shown entangled amidst the mystery of Ivanov's (a police official) murder.
In the third episode of the first series of popular British sit-com The Office, David Brent tries to impress the new temp with his knowledge of Dostoevsky to no avail, as the temp knows more about him than David does.
The Alfred Hitchcock film Rope is based loosely on Crime and Punishment and explores many of the same themes.
Dostoevsky is referenced several times in the animated series Family Guy.
In the episode Peter Griffin: Husband, Father...Brother?, a cut scene featuring one of Dennis Miller's lengthy multisyllabic rants mentions several prominent literary characters, Raskolnikov among them.
In the next episode, Ready, Willing, and Disabled, Brian is seen reading a copy of Crime and Punishment.
In the 2005 musical-movie The Producers, Max Bialystock sarcastically refers to Leo Bloom as "Prince Myshkin" after Bloom has a mock-epileptic seizure.
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