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Consider the famous case of Kitty Genovese, who was stabbed to death outside her apartment building in New York in 1964. Some neighbors heard the young woman’s cries for help, but no one intervened or called the police. The media soon reported that the neighbors had been callous and completely unconcerned about their neighbor, sparking outrage.
Blinkist • Our brain loves shortcuts, and they can be used to manipulate us.
This is really the form that the dilemma takes. It is not solely a question of keeping the body alive; it is rather how not to be killed. Not to be killed becomes the great end, and morality takes its meaning from that center. Until that center is shifted, nothing real can be accomplished. It is the uncanny and perhaps unwitting recognition of this
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The last one, a bony-looking man with dark hair and a broken nose, looked vaguely familiar. Five days later, the same photo would flash on news screens across the country. The man was Ibragim Todashev, and an FBI agent had shot him dead.
Susan Clare Zalkind • The Waltham Murders: One Woman’s Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy
One of the most robust findings in criminology is that increasing the severity of punishment has little deterrent effect. People simply aren’t as sensitive to the potential costs of crime as the rational-choice model predicts they should be, and so efforts to reduce it by cracking down have failed to justify the immense fiscal and social costs of
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Did Jonathan Gold somehow provoke this tragedy? Was he in fact counting on it?
Dann McDorman • West Heart Kill: A novel
Gerald F. Ragland, Jr. • Slee v. Erhard, Complaint in Trespass For Wrongful Death Demand for Jury Trial (1984) - Wikisource, the free online library
He gave them a grand up front to shoot a man named Gale Collins, recent resident of the federal prison in Joliet and now living in Kansas City. The man’s sudden parole was suspiciously coincidental to the capture of an Italian American fugitive who, until recently, had been living under an assumed name in Legion, Nebraska, for the past eighteen
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