On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper: Fear and the Media

by Jack R. Censer

Book Overview

For a month in the fall of 2002, a series of sniper attacks suddenly dominated the headlines in the nation's capital. Beginning in the Washington suburbs, these crimes eventually stretched over one hundred miles along I-95 to Richmond. More than a thousand law officers would pursue the perpetrators--an enormous number for one case. The number of reporters covering the story, however, was even greater. On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper uses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081392894X
• ISBN13: 9780813928944
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher