How is kitty genovese remembered in Oakland case lately?”
The case of Kitty Genovese is being evoked by many trying to understand how bystanders failed to stop or report the gang rape, beating and robbery of a 15-year-old girl in Oakland, California, over the weekend. Five suspects have so far been arrested in the Oakland case while authorities continue to investigate the incident, which happened outside a Saturday night homecoming dance at Richmond High School. Kitty Genovese (From the New York Times) Police have said there may be 10 separate assailants, and that that as many as 20 people witnessed and even joined in on the assault, leaving them at a loss to explain why the crime went on for so long without being reported. Being blamed at least in part is the bystander effect, also called Genovese syndrome. According to the pscyhological theory of the bystander effect, the larger the number of people involved in a situation, the less will get done. When doing nothing is the norm in a situation, people either assume the crime has been reporte
