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CSI Effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The "CSI Effect" is a reference to the phenomenon of popular television shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Law and Order, and Crossing Jordan raising crime victims' and jury members' real-world expectations of forensic science, especially crime scene investigation and DNA testing. The CSI Effect in the courtroom and in the criminal mind , the CSI family and Cold Case), eyewitness testimony is presented in the form of flashback scenes, creating the impression that the witness is being absolutely truthful and has perfect memory of the events they are describing. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CSI_effect   (858 words)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (commonly referred to as CSI) is a popular, Emmy Award-winning CBS television series that trails the investigations of a team of forensic scientists as they unravel the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and crimes committed in and around Las Vegas, Nevada. CSI's theme song is "Who Are You", written by Pete Townshend of The Who as the title track of their 1978 album. Brass was the head of the CSI unit in Las Vegas until he was moved back to the police homicide division in the pilot episode. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CSI:_Crime_Scene_Investigation   (3289 words)

The Monitor - McAllen, Texas CSI Effect or no, George Kydd, a 57-year-old hand therapist who lives in McAllen and watches the show regularly, says the show does not influence him to speculate about what other evidence may be out there. The CSI Effect even is addressed at statewide seminars, where prosecutors are taught they must address the show during jury selection and explain to the panel that "a murder won’t be solved in an hour," Orendain said. CSI shows don’t pertain to trials or underscore that the absence of trial evidence equals non-guilt, she said. www.themonitor.com /SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=13024&Section=Local   (727 words)

USATODAY.com - 'CSI effect' has juries wanting more evidence CSI and a spinoff, CSI: Miami (which is about to begin its third season), have drawn an average of more than 40 million viewers a week during the past TV season. CSI producers acknowledge that they take some liberties with facts and the capabilities of science, but they say it's necessary to keep their story lines moving. Prosecutors, defense lawyers and judges call it "the CSI effect," after the crime-scene shows that are among the hottest attractions on television. www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-08-05-csi-effect_x.htm   (1807 words)

Wall Street Journal It is not even quite clear what the "C.S.I. effect" actually is. Prosecutors claim that the show makes juries less inclined to convict because they have inflated expectations for the comprehensiveness, sophistication and clarity of forensic evidence--all those threads and fibers and DNA traces left behind at crime scenes. But to argue that "C.S.I." and similar shows are actually raising the number of acquittals is a staggering claim, and the remarkable thing is that, speaking forensically, there is not a shred of evidence to back it up. But in that case the true "C.S.I. effect" is the absurdly glamorous image of crime-scene investigators as good-looking, hard-bodied and deeply involved, day after day, in fascinating, rewarding work. www.law-forensic.com /csi_effect_05_01.htm   (966 words)

The Pocket Part While some existing evidence, like the Maricopa study, is consistent with the CSI effect argument, it is equally plausible to argue that watching CSI has, in fact, the opposite effect on jurors--increasing their tendency to convict defendants. The "CSI effect" is a term coined by prosecutors and the mass media to describe the influence that television crime dramas like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation have on jurors. The CSI effect is probably most important as an example of the way that a broad consensus about the existence of a legally relevant “fact” can emerge out of unsystematic and untested anecdotal observations, in this case by prosecutors and other court observers seeking to explain acquittals that they find puzzling. www.thepocketpart.org /2006/02/tyler.html   (813 words)

'CSI Effect' To Be Discussed At Law, Science Conference - from TBO.com It's a phenomenon known as "the CSI Effect," and it has been both praised and blamed for increasing jurors' expectations of the type of forensic evidence that can be produced at trials. The impact of the CSI Effect is among the topics that will be debated at the National Conference on Science, Technology and the Law, beginning today in St. Petersburg. But some prosecutors and jury consultants blame the CSI Effect for giving jurors unrealistic expectations. news.tbo.com /news/MGB5OCT8IDE.html   (556 words)

Talk CSI: 'CSI' Influences Real-Life Jurors Whether the "CSI Effect" benefits or hurts a murder trial remains a debate, going as far as causing the dismissal of potential jurors who admit they are fans of the show (news). CSI Files and its subsidiary sites are in no way affiliated with CBS Productions, Inc. or Alliance Atlantis Productions, Inc. 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' ® and 'CSI: Miami' ®, in all their various forms, are trademarks of CBS. The CSI team is happy their show has caused people to be more aware of the judicial practices. talk.csifiles.com /showflat.php?Board=csiNewsItems&Number=84761   (460 words)

Fayetteville Online - AP Article Page Only 12 percent of frequent "CSI" viewers, and 16 percent of those who rarely watch the shows, said their verdict was based on a "CSI-marked" reason, such as the lack of DNA or fingerprint evidence. She plans to spend the coming summer studying whether the real "CSI effect" is to bias potential jurors in favor of the prosecution. RALEIGH, N.C. The "CSI" dramas may be hits in prime time, but a new study finds that fans who end up on juries aren't likely to demand the same kind of dazzling forensic evidence they see on television, a fear of some legal experts. www.fayettevillenc.com /article_ap?id=80744   (769 words)

Forensics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia These related TV shows have changed individuals' expectations of forensic science, an influence termed the "CSI effect". Forensic toxicology is the study of the effect of drugs and poisons on the human body. Ambrose Paré, a French army surgeon, systematically studied the effects of violent death on internal organs. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forensics   (1134 words)

'The CSI Effect' - CBS News And in a big city like Baltimore, prosecutors blamed "The CSI Effect" when jurors acquitted a man of murder, even though were two eyewitnesses. The two squared off about the role, if any, of "The CSI Effect" in the Scott Peterson and Blake cases. "CSI" creator Anthony E. Zuiker observes, " 'The CSI Effect' is, in my opinion, the most amazing thing that has ever come out of the series. www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/03/21/earlyshow/main681949.shtml   (823 words)

Crime & Federalism: The CSI Effect The CSI effect is going to be helpful when I ask that officer if he checked for fingerprints or if he sent it to the lab for fingerprints. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The CSI Effect: Lately, there's been a lot of talk around the blogosphere about how shows like CSI effect juries. federalism.typepad.com /crime_federalism/2005/04/the_csi_effect.html   (461 words)

injusticebusters 2004 > > The CSI effect: Reliance on science as a cure for injustice Defense attorney Patrick Thomassey said the CSI effect can be used to a defense attorney's advantage, but one must be careful not to cross ethical boundaries, such as implying that the prosecution did not test or find fingerprints or DNA when those types of evidence might be impossible to obtain from a scene. It is becoming known as the "CSI effect" -- a syndrome that renders judges, juries and the public incapable of accepting a defendant's innocence unless he has DNA on his side. Television shows like CBS's CSI and its spinoffs "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: New York" have sparked the imagination of thousands of students who are enrolling in forensic courses as colleges scramble to develop programs to meet the demand. www.injusticebusters.com /04/CSI_Effect.shtml   (2898 words)

Newhouse A1 There is even concern in the legal community that the CSI effect may make jurors more prone to return verdicts that aren't based on details presented in court, but on what television has taught them about casework and justice. It's being called the CSI effect, after the highly rated television show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." Armed with knowledge gathered from the burgeoning number of high-tech television programs, jurors are becoming self-appointed forensic experts. Shows such as "CSI," its two spinoffs, plus the "Law and Order" franchise and others like "Cold Case" focus on splashy police investigations where crime scenes can be mapped using lasers, virtual autopsies can be performed, and hair, fingerprint and DNA evidence are not only always attainable, but also always definitive. www.newhousenews.com /archive/coscarelli050205.html   (1472 words)

BYU NewsNet - CSI: Not A Reality Show On CSI the TV show, the investigators analyze all kinds of evidence, but in real life each specific discipline (such as blood splatter analysis, ballistics, etc.) takes about two years to master and become an expert qualified to testify before a jury. Although the CSI effect has been negative in most respects, there have been some upsides, such as an increased interest level in the forensic profession. "Some judges have even changed their jury instruction to say that CSI is a TV show and you don't have to have 50 different kinds of forensic evidence in a trial to convict someone," said Stewart Smith, director of the state forensic crime lab for the Utah Department of Public Safety. newsnet.byu.edu /story.cfm/57983   (1172 words)

'CSI effect' evident in US courtrooms - (possible reason jury acquitted Robert Blake) Just as CSI increases expectations that often outstrip reality, so too do the state-of-the-art labs featured on the series compare favourably with their often under-funded and over-stretched real-life counterparts, fostering the erroneous impression that forensic science is as swift a process as it is certain. On CSI, for instance, no fingerprint is ever less than perfect and all fabrics, including those as common as a white cotton T-shirt, can be traced to the perpetrator of the latest grisly murder to be featured on screen. John Houde, a criminologist and author of Crime Lab: A Guide for Non-scientists told the American Bar Association: "CSI has as much to do with criminalistics as Baywatch has to do with being a lifeguard." www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1390431/posts   (1411 words)

The “CSI Effect”: Juries Demand More Evidence - LegalZoom.com While the CSI Effect may force lawyers on both sides to work harder in order to prove their cases, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges alike agree that the crime scene dramas have increased juror interest in forensic evidence. In a nation where defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty, the CSI Effect serves as a reminder that the burden of proof rests on the prosecution. And as for crime labs, the CSI Effect is beginning to take its toll in the form of an increasing workload. www.legalzoom.com /articles/article_content/article14023.html   (966 words)

BBC NEWS Science/Nature CSI shows give 'unrealistic view' "The CSI effect is basically the perception of the near-infallibility of forensic science in response to the TV show," said Max Houck, who runs a forensic science graduate course at West Virginia University, US. "Prosecutors fear the CSI effect with juries because, for example, they wonder: 'why wasn't everything tested?' Well, in fact, not everything needs to be tested," Dr Houck explained. "Defence attorneys also worry about the CSI effect because they think that jurors come in and have this view of science as a juggernaut; this objective method that's always accurate." news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/4284335.stm   (509 words)

'CSI effect' making cases hard to prove: lawyers. 24/09/2005. ABC News Online Alice Martin, the US state prosecutor for the Northern District of Alabama, said the so-called 'CSI effect - a reference to the hit television show about gruesome crime scene investigations - hurt her in a recent corporate case. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, US television's top-rated drama last season, is one of about two dozen police procedural series airing on prime time in recent years, including two spinoffs - CSI: Miami and CSI: NY. 'CSI effect' making cases hard to prove: lawyers. www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200509/s1467632.htm   (506 words)

The CSI Effect PressEthic “CSI Effect is a phenomenon related to the popularity of television shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Forensic Files and Law and Order. Have you heard of such a thing as the CSI Effect? They report that “shows like CSI are giving jurors unrealistic expectations of how forensic science works.” journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/pressethic/node/529   (482 words)

The CSI Effect Adults who expect to determine justice by an animated CSI video show given them by their local underpaid prosecutor and when they don't get it put a criminal back on the street are too stupid to see the end results of doing stupid acts. CSI is a bit like Star Trek set in the modern day. Real life court cases are not like CSI. www.museumofhoaxes.com /hoax/weblog/comments/3793   (1380 words)

Law.com - Prosecutors Say TV-Savvy Criminals Benefit From 'CSI Effect' "The net 'CSI' effect was that whoever cleaned up the crime scene opened the door to the admission of junk science that could point the finger at almost anyone," he said. District attorneys across the nation are grumbling about a new kind of "CSI effect" that makes their jobs tougher. Noriega's co-counsel, San Luis Obispo, Calif., solo practitioner Bill McClennan has also observed this other "CSI" effect. www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1140084311672   (659 words)

"CSI Effect" Causing Courts Problems CSI effect: Male jurors dissappointed when forensic expert is not a hot babe in tight clothing. American TV show CSI: Miami has been attacked by a top scientist for misleading jurors with its unrealistic portrayal of the capabilities of forensic experts and the boundaries of science. Lawyers fear the popular drama has precipitated the "CSI effect" by giving the public unrealistic expectations of what can be achieved in forensic laboratories - and that forensic testimonies are beyond reproach. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1349157/posts   (766 words)

The CSI Effect and the Sox's New GMs New Hampshire Public Radio The phenomenon and number of CSI television shows is having an impact on the forensics labs and some of the universities and colleges of New Hampshire. The CSI Effect and the Sox's New GMs The CSI Effect and the Sox's New GMs www.nhpr.org /node/10088   (117 words)

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CSI & our writing? - Hatrack River Writers Workshop Forensic detective stories have been popular for more than a century and CSI is more a product of them than it is likely to have an effect on the way writers write, imo. The popularity of shows like CSI and the J.A.G. spin-off, NCIS, probably means that there is a bandwagon that writers could jump on and automatically find a market regardless of overall writing quality. I'm personally smart enough to know how inaccurate the show CSI is, but not everyone is (obviously, otherwise the effect wouldn't exist)... www.hatrack.com /forums/writers/forum/Forum1/HTML/002080.html   (2441 words)

Times Community Newspapers - The CSI effect The CSI effect means that now, "jurors want to know whether a certain test was done or not done, whether or not it may be relevant to the case," Mercer said. And you see the CSI team always tying everything neatly together and solving the case. Last September, addressing a conference on white-collar crime at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., Alice Martin, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, blamed the "CSI Effect" for the acquittal of HealthSouth Corporation founder Richard Scrushy on charges of securities fraud. www.timescommunity.com /site/tab2.cfm?newsid=15662022&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506066&rfi=6   (1689 words)

Evidence Suggests 'CSI Effect' On Jurors "CSI" dominates the weekly ratings for CBS with versions set in Las Vegas, Miami and New York, and "Law and Order" and its spinoffs are an NBC stalwart. There is no debating, however, one clear, very widespread result of these programs: The justice system is facing what legal experts call "the CSI effect," a TV-bred demand by jurors for high-tech, indisputable forensic evidence before they will convict. While "Law and Order" glamorizes prosecutors, "CSI" can set standards for the infallibility of forensic evidence that prosecutors can't often meet - a science-solves-all formula that millions of viewers may bring to jury service. www.tbo.com /life/includes/MGBS2LJXHIE.html   (1039 words)

news_article.aspx?storyid=112047 There's no proof that the effect exists on any significant scale, but the huge audiences that tune in "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and other popular crime shows have some prosecutors so worried that they have begun changing their courtroom tactics. Prokopowicz expressed fear that the case was an example of what prosecutors nationwide call the "CSI effect" - juries that demand the same high-tech, incontrovertible proof of guilt that TV crime drama heroes produce every week. Fear of 'CSI effect' changes how cases are investigated, tried www.kare11.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=112047   (785 words)

UNCG: Professor Wins Award for Research into 'CSI Effect' She studied whether “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” viewers, as compared to non-viewers, were more likely to acquit a criminal defendant and to do so on the basis of “CSI”-type factors, such as the DNA, fingerprint and hair analysis commonly depicted on the show. In fact, considering the small minority of “CSI” viewers who considered “CSI” factors in their verdicts, the data suggest that they are not influenced by such factors, or considered the very same factors as non-frequent viewers. Her findings were summarized in the article “The CSI Effect: Exposing the Media Myth,” which will be published this month in the Fordham Intellectual Property and Media Law Journal. www.uncg.edu /ure/news/stories/2006/Feb/Podlas021306.htm   (413 words)

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