Kitty Genovese

Kevin Cook reexamines the March 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese in Kew Gardens, Queens, long cited in social psychology textbooks as the canonical proof of bystander apathy following press reports of thirty-eight witnesses failing to intervene. The book carefully dismantles a myth built on distorted journalism, restoring the victim's full humanity and correcting a profoundly misleading cultural narrative.

ISBN 9780393242911 · W. W. Norton & Company · 2014