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Research Paper On The Kitty Genovese Murder

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The Kitty Genovese Murder and the Social Psychology of Helping the Parable of the 38 witnesses argue that the 38 witnesses who were inactive during the murder of Genovese cannot be supported by the evidence that was taken up. This story is about a victim, Kitty Genovese who was killed in plain sight of 38 neighbors who did nothing to help. This crime has challenged the discipline of social psychology and created a theory known as the bystander effect. The bystander effect is an idea that people do not intervene because they are affected by the presence of others. In her case, she was murdered and assaulted sexually early morning on March 13, 1964, in the district of Queens, New York. Her screams were heard by the supposedly 38 people that were …show more content…

He went with the ideas of Gansberg and stated that not all the 38 witnesses could have witnessed what happened because they couldn’t have watched all the 30 minutes of the attack since they weren’t visible to all of the witnesses. At the trial 5 out of the 38 witnesses were called. And out of these 5, only 3 were eyewitnesses who saw Genovese and Moseley together. De May noted the people that gave evidence during the trial that their first glimpse of them did not seem like a murder. Those witnesses each gave a description of what they thought they saw. Most of the of their testimonies said that they were together, and the man was beating her, or they were both kneeling. And the other testimony was that she scared him off by shouting and that none saw the stabbing. And that the second part of the attack took place in the building by the stairwell. But out of all the witnesses, only one can see the attack. That one witness claimed that he can see but his 15-year-old son said that his father didn’t call the police. The residents claimed that they called the police but not all the time they answered in a great

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