Kitty genovese biography

On March 13, 1964, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was mugged and stabbed to death outside her apartment building on Austin Street, in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens in New York City, United States.^[1][2][3]

Two weeks after the murder, The New York Times published an article claiming that 38 witnesses saw or heard the attack, and that none of them called the police or came to her aid, apart from her neighbour Sophia Farrar.

The incident was the bystander effect or "Genovese syndrome,"^[4] and the murder became a well known example of U.S. psychology textbooks. Genovese syndrome is when witnesses to a crime do not report the crime because they are scared and they believe that others will report it instead, which in the end they do not and the crime goes unreported.

However, this is not exactly what happened. Police interviews did reveal that many witnesses were afraid to be involved, but many witnesses d