Topic: Kitty Genovese

Sundance Institute 2011 shorts program

Incident by a BankIf there's one short film in this program (which plays through Thursday at the Music Box Theatre) that benefits from being seen...
It shouldn't happen to a dog. . North Babylon, L.I.: Milan Rysa is a self-centered, heartless jerk ("Cruel lunkhead tosses dog, plays dumb - cops,"...
Don't fill in this field Artful Choice Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Tweet . How does someone decide whether or not to offer a bribe? While there is a...
Summer reading in the city can take place in a number of places, but a park bench is nice.. . NEW YORK STORIES. . Eleanor Henderson's novel of...
NEW YORK STORIES. . Eleanor Henderson's novel of coming of age in '80s New York, "Ten Thousand Saints" (6/7), has a literary edge as well as...
New York lost its heart 47 years ago Sunday, if you believe what you read in the newspapers.. . In the wee hours of March 13, 1964, the petit...

The bystander effect!

I read an account by Jeremy Vine today, about his failure to step in and stand up for a woman on the tube who was being hassled and how this situation escalated. In the Kitty Genovese case for example, 38 people witnessed ...

Hello, I am Kitty G

I am gone now but my name was Kitty.Kitty Genovese.On March 13, 1964, something terrible happened.I was murdered.But that's not the most terrible thing that happened, becausethe kind of murder that occurred haunts humanity still.The reason ...

Bystander Apathy

In 2007, The U.S. Department of Justice (2009) reported that citizens experienced 23 million crimes. Although bystander apathy may be a psychological phenomenon, it may also be a result of the misapplication of society respecting the privacy of Anyone who has ...
After I reviewed my criminology notes and texts on the Kitty Genovese case and the Genovese crime family of New York City, I was near a second run movie house. The Revenge of Kitty Galore, which gave me a good laugh to ...