JARGON BUSTER “K”

KITTY GENOVESE CASE (Study Conducted by: New York Police Force) - Early one morning in March 1964, a young woman called Kitty Genovese returned home to her New York apartment and was attacked and killed by an armed assailant. It was reported that dozens of neighbours watched the murder take place just outside their windows, but no-one came to her aid. Although the precise details have since been called into question, the case has come to represent what social scientists call the "bystander effect".