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Essay / Anomie Case Study - 1505
It has been stated that whether people help or not depends on a series of interconnected events and decisions. They must first notice what is happening, understand that it is an emergency, and accept personal responsibility. When this does not happen, it is called the bystander effect (Carpenter & Huffman, 2008, p. 422). It has been reported that one of the main reasons for the lack of reaction to Catherine's murder is that no one realized they were witnessing a real murder and the major shock of this compared to this that they saw on television caused their minds to refuse to accept. and this was supported when New York psychiatrist Dr. Iago Galdston said that "the megalopolis in which we live makes closeness very difficult and leads to alienation." He ended his statement by saying, “The murder of Kitty Genovese was symbolic of everything that was wrong. in modern society, apathy is endemic and dangerous” (Gado,