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2010 Kitty Genovese? Stigmatization and the Death of Hugo Tale-Yax

By Jonathan Simor

Eight days ago, Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax, one of many Americans left jobless and homeless by the past couple years' market collapse, intervened in a violent domestic dispute and was stabbed multiple times. His "neighbors" responded by "minding their own business" -- stepping around his body until all the life had bled out of it -- until a schoolteacher notified the police that something was wrong. By then, it was too late.Few Americans who read this story will avoid feeling shock, sadness, or at least some sort of disgust, but bland, overly general commentary on how rotten people are, which is the dominant "point" being made in comment threads attached to articles on the killing, doesn't get us very far in understanding what happened, why it bothers us, and what kind of systemic change could make this kind of thing less likely (or even imaginable)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on April 26, 2010 (boomark / email).