No one helped : Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the myth of urban apathy /

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In "No One Helped" Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America's most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York. Front-page reports in the New York Times incorrectly identified thirty-ei...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gallo, Marcia M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Genovese, Kitty, > 1935-1964.
Genovese, Kitty, > 1935-1964
Murder in mass media.
Murder > New York (State) > New York.
Bystander effect > New York (State) > New York.
Homicide > history
Homicide > psychology
Meurtre dans les médias.
Meurtre > New York (État) > New York.
Effet du témoin > New York (État) > New York.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
TRUE CRIME > Murder > General.
Bystander effect
Murder
Murder in mass media
New York (State) > New York
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: A New York story
  • Urban villages in the big city
  • Hidden in plain sight
  • Thirty-eight witnesses
  • The metropolitan brand of apathy
  • The city responds
  • Surviving new city streets
  • Challenging the story of urban apathy
  • Epilogue: Kitty, fifty years later.

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