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Kitty Genovese the murder, the bystanders, the crime that changed America

"New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop -- a murder the New York Times called " a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change." The victim, Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, became an urban martyr, butchered by a sociopathic killer in pla...

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Main Author: Cook, Kevin, 1956-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Genovese, Catherine, > -1964.
Murder victims > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Murder > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Witnesses > New York (State) > New York.
Police > New York (State) > New York.
Table of Contents:
  • More than a name
  • Opposites
  • Garden suburb
  • Tigers and ants
  • Village people
  • She loves you
  • Ozone park
  • The 11th hour
  • Night of the hunt
  • Postmortem
  • Neighbors
  • Confessions
  • Pleas
  • Questions for the devil
  • Consequences
  • Calling for help
  • Jailbreak
  • The uses of memory
  • Case studies
  • Revisions
  • Thirty-six minutes.

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