voluntary would have been forced if they did not want to get in trouble with the law. On the other hand, referring back to the Genovese incident, that witness could have feared that not reporting the incident to the police could have held him criminally liable. III.Comparative LawAccording to New Jersey and every other state with the exception of Vermont and Minnesota, no laws have been passed to require bystanders to render assistance. In order to encourage the bystanders to render assistance, Good Samaritan bills do fall under every state. In this country there are situations that are taken into consideration when courts have to recognize a duty to render assistance. These situations are the only measures the country has in order to make someone liable for their failure to render assistance. The courts have imposed a duty to assist on those who stand in a certain relationship to another. These relationships include, "parent to child, spouse to spouse, common carrier to passenger, innkeeper to guest, storekeeper to customer, host to social guest, employer to employee, teacher to student, and jailer to inmate"(Silver, 22). Another situation is duty by contract, which involves those who work to protect us such as police officers, life guards, nurses, and so on. A third situation is if there is a statute that imposes a duty to help another. The fourth situation comes in if you have voluntarily assumed the care of that person. Once you have volunteered that care, you must render assistance till professional care then assumes the responsibility. A fifth situation is if you created the peril, you must render assistance. And finally, you have a duty to control the conduct of another if you feel that danger is involved. The exception of this rule, making it a duty to render assistance, falls under two states. "Vermont's law, passed in 1967, requires anyone who knows that another is in grave danger to render reasonable ...
