Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America
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New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop--a murder the New York Times called "a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change." The victim, Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, became an urban martyr, butchered by a sociopathic killer in plain sight of thirty-eight neighbors who "didn't want to get involved." Her sensational case provoked an anxious outcry and launched a sociological theory known as the "Bystander Effect."...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393239284
ISBN13:9780393239287
Release Date:March 2014
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.6"
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