Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America

by Kevin Cook

Book Overview

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: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.6"