Kitty Genovese

the most about this documentary is how people’s reactions change once they are with a group of people, even though they don’t think things are right they don’t stand up and say something they just conform because everyone else is. Like in the Kitty Genovese case people were just being bystanders when it came to her being chased and killed no one did anything till it was too late, or how the four boys just watched as their friend die later realizing they could have prevented it. In the McDonald’s…

The passing of the eighteenth amendment provided an opportunity for Lucania to recruit some new meat. Lucania became one of the “Big Six” of bootlegging along with Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel (“Luciano”, n.d.). His bootlegging gang grew throughout the 1920’s. Lucania and his friends recruited new Jewish gang members, including Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, nicknamed “Lepke” by his mother, Abner “Longie” Zwillman, another Jew, and Zwillman’s partner, Willie Moretti (Gosch, 1975). These unscrupulous…

The clan went through several leaders until in 1927 the Castellammarese War broke out between the two rival criminals in New York, the Castellammarese Clan was hijacking liquor shipments from Giuseppe “Joe the Boss”(Editors, 2015) Masseria the boss Genovese Crime Family (members of…

The origin of the Mafia began in Sicily, Italy. The migration to America begun when Don Vito Ferro of the “La Costra Nostra” had to flee to New York from Sicily. Don Vito Ferro was escaping from an angry enemy. Accordingly, Mussolini, the fatal prime minister of Italy, worked to try to exterminate the Mafia in Italy. With a push from Mussolini, many members of the Mafia began to flee to America throughout the 1900’s (History of the Mob). About twenty years later from the root of Italian American…

“Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder and Didn’t Call the Police,” twenty-eight year old Kitty Genovese was attacked and murdered, which could have been prevented if…

“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself” - Mohsin Hamid In ELA class, I have studied the Kitty Genovese case, themes for the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, and how I feel towards society. The expectations for this class are to understand what is going on in our world in the past and current events. In this class, we have learned about racism, bystander effects, etc. and how they affect our society and what happens in our society. In this class I have studied first-hand…

The greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help. An example of such phenomenon is what happen to Kitty. There were approximately 12 people who claimed to have seen the first attack of Kitty Genovese. Ms. Genovese was raped and murdered because no one reacted to her cries for help, thinking someone else must have heard her and would help. The cases of course are not always this serious. Many times, we are…

In this incident, 38 people witnessed the murder of a young woman, Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, but no one did anything to stop it. By the time the police were called, it was too late, and Kitty was beyond saving. (Gansberg, 1964) This case seems to confirm the selfish nature of humanity set forth by Machiavelli; it wasn’t that there was something fundamentally wrong with all 38 of the people who saw Kitty killed. Rather, there appears to be a fundamental flaw in human psychology. Unless a…

change an individual and their mentality. This includes a person’s perspectives, behaviours, attitudes and also the city’s ‘personality’. Using his essay, ‘The Metropolis and Mental Life’, we look at how the circumstances following the death of Kitty Genovese supports Simmel’s study with the help of the social psychological phenomenon ‘the bystander effect’. Simmel’s perspective is also supported by present day examples and is still very relevant to this day, influencing other sociologist’s…

Catherine “Kitty” Genovese could have been prevented if bystanders had chosen to help instead of standing by and allowing the murder to occur. Even though citizens are encouraged to report any suspicious activity to the authorities, bystander apathy continues to allow crimes to be committed. In Genovese’s case, there were thirty-eight bystanders. Not one person attempted to report the murder or help rescue Catherine, who had been stabbed several times in the back. In March of 1964, Genovese was…