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The Bystander Effect: Safety in Numbers?

Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 23:57:49
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 7 pages (1865 words)
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On the night of March 13, 1964 at 3:10 in the morning, 28 year-old Kitty Genovese was stabbed repeatedly in front of an audience of 38 people. She screams, "Oh my God, he stabbed me! Please help me!" Instead of rushing to her side, the crowd only stares. Many of them turn and look the other way. One person yells from a nearby window, "Hey, leave that girl alone." The assailant takes off running, and Kitty is left on the …

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…Choice: Individuation, Reason, and Order vs. <Tab/>Deindividuation, Impulse, and Chaos" Nebraska Symposium on Motivation. Ed. <Tab/>W. J. Arnold. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1969. 237-307. "The Killing of Kitty Genovese" Newsweek. 13 March 1964: Retrieved November 13, <Tab/>2004. http://www.lihistory.com/8/hs/818a.htm "Bystander Effect". Wikipedia On Line Encyclopedia. 2004. Retrieved November 13, <Tab/>2004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect

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