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On the Trail of the DC Snipers
March 20th, 2010

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In October 2002, filling up a gas tank or loading groceries into the car brought fear to many residents of metropolitan Washington, D.C. region.  Over the course of three weeks, two snipers killed 10 people and injured three others in Washington, Maryland, and Virginia.  Jack Censer (George Mason University) in his new book “On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper: Fear and the Media” asks if the press, by intensifying its focus on the atmosphere of heightened anxiety, also intensified the sense of fear. Also featured:  Tod Burke (Radford University) and Stephen Owen (Radford University) examine how cell phones are being smuggled into prison facilities worldwide in swelling numbers and are being used to orchestrate crimes, retaliate against other inmates, and to intimidate and threaten witnesses. Also: David Weisburd (George Mason University) says concentrating on “hot spots” or specific streets where crime is occurring, instead of entire neighborhoods, enables police and communities to focus their resources.

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  • Censer to Sign “On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper” at Borders on April 17. | History & Art History :

    [...] Dr. Jack Censer, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Science, will be at the Borders on 11054 Lee Highway in Fairfax, VA on Saturday, April 17 , at 2:00 pm for a talk and book signing for his newly published book: On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper: Fear and the Media. In this book, Dr. Censer investigates the heightened state of anxiety during the sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., metro area during the fall of 2002. On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper uses the remarkable events of that October to explore the shifting character of journalism as it entered the twenty-first century and to question how this change in the way news is gathered and reported impacted the events it covered. Also, listen to his recent interview on “With Good Reason”. [...]

    -- April 7, 2010 @ 10:56 am

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