Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn T Call The Police Analysis

Multiple individuals witness a crime or an accident being committed at the same time in front of them and do not take action in hopes that someone else would have taken action. This is an example of the genovese syndrome or the bystander effect because an individual does not help a victim when there are other individual present at the scene. The bystander effect can be seen everywhere, whether it is not raising a hand to answer a question to simply not standing for a person who is being victimized and not saying anything about it. In many crime the witnesses do not come forward because they are scared about what other people might think about the witness. In the article “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” written by Martin Gansberg, analyzes the murder of Catherine Genovese who was killed in front of her apartment building and the thirty eight people who heard her crying out for help and did not call the police. Many psychologist wondered why no one call the police after hearing the pleas for help from Catherine Genovese. Although no one called the police until it
Some might have even hoped that someone else would have already called the police and they do not need to do anything about. But for Catherine Genovese it was too late, even though she did everything that she could have possibly done to protect herself none of the neighbors sought to help her. She died as example of what would happen if an individual relies on someone else to take action or not pay any attention to details. Individuals should take responsibility if they witness an incident or a crime. The police officers in the Genovese murder believed that if one of the witness call the police when Catherine Genovese was still fighting for her life , she would still be