Reference no: EM133791041

Assignment:

On page 50, in a passage entitled Rediscovering the Importance of Bystanders Who Intervene, Karmen writes:

"[U]ntil the mid-1960s, the important role bystanders can play during a crime in progress was given little attention by social scientists. A brutal rape of a young woman crying out for help, late at night, that culminated in her being stabbed to death under the windows of many people living in nearby apartment buildings in New York in 1963, dramatized the need to study how onlookers react to a crime in progress (see Gallo, 2015; and Cook, 2015)."

Use the References in your textbook to identify the case Karmen is referring to here (if you did not recognize it immediately. It is a very famous case.)

Then, online search (you can look for news articles, documentaries, podcasts, etc) and provide a summary of the case as it was presented at the time, and of its impact not just among experts/victimologists/criminologists, but amongst the general public as well. Cite the sources you are using, and provide links to them.

Then explain what we know now about this case, and what truly happened.

Reflect on the role played by the media, specifically by the New York Times in shaping how many people think about the role of bystanders. When doing so, refer to what Karmen writes about the media at the bottom of page 62 and top of 63, specifically about how journalists and editors make daily decisions about what to cover and what not to cover, about what events are newsworthy and which are not, about how they decide to frame such events, etc...