...Running Head: CSI EFFECT 1 CSI Effect Karen Choisser Grantham University CSI EFFECT 2 Abstract What is the “CSI Effect” and does it really exist. Some people think watching television shows such as CSI and Law & Order have an effect on how jurors will convict or not convict a criminal, then there are some who don’t feel this way. Continue reading to decide for yourself. CSI EFFECT 3 CSI Effect What is the “CSI Effect”? Is it anything more than a myth? Actual jurors in real cases are wrongly acquitting criminals who they would have convicted if the television show CSI was not aired, as people see it as real. Prosecutors say the CSI effect forces them to explain why they have no forensic evidence, and jury selection takes longer as the people who seem to be influenced by the show are removed. Defense attorney’s agree about the effects of the television show. Producers of CSI say their show has an educational effect on the public(teaches them science). Some police feel that CSI helps educate criminals on how not to get caught. Educators think CSI attracts students to want a career in forensic science.(Knight,2010)...
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...For this assignment I chose Double Jeopardy from CSI Miami, season four episode eighteen. In this episode a husband is found innocent of his wife's murder just as her missing body is being pulled from the ocean by a fisherman. March 26 Mr. Rowe discovered his wife’s racial status and she disappeared on October 5th but the husband waited 3 days to report her death. During this time he practiced killing Terisa Matherdy. Losing four twenty lb weight set in the process. The CSI team must try to find new evidence linking the husband to the deed since he can't be tried again with the same evidence...as it is considered "Double Jeopardy." A little evidence and timely confessions shows that the husband and his girlfriend did, indeed, kill the wife Melisa Rowe. My uncle Lieutenant Steve Helm stated that he has seen CSI more often driving a 1990's pickup truck rather than a $60,000 Hummer, as seen on the show CSI. But when you’re a movie star you can drive whatever company is paying the advertising bills. In Hollywood’s depicture of real life organizations this type of flashy brand new equipment is expected. Forensic scientists are rarely actually involved in solving cases, as the show depicts. A team of scientists is usually called out once a month to a crime scene to investigate fingerprints, firearms, trace evidence, document blood splatter patterns, collect footprints and tire prints, footwear patterns, and other evidence. My uncle said, “Forensic scientists rarely go to most...
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...The purpose of this project is to provide the reader of this paper with a descriptive analysis of an episode of Crime Scene Investigations (C.S.I.). The intent is to show what is provided by the television series of what happens in a crime and what is supposed to happen during a crime scene investigation. The reader should be able to understand during this analysis to what in fact is non-realistic in this television episode and what is reality as determined by what has been researched. This will show what really happens in a crime scene investigations lab. The episode chosen for this review was CSI: Miami, The Golden Parachute. The episode begins with an aircraft taking important people to testify in front of the Security Exchange Commission. The aircraft began to have issues after takeoff and crash landed in the Florida Everglades. Fishermen were located in and around the everglades and witnessed the crash, they were consumed by what just happened and alerted 911. This prompted Horatio and his crime scene investigative team to begin work. There were eight total passengers on board including the pilots. They immediately identified bodies in the water and determined that this was a leve1 two biohazard. There were bodies thrown from the aircraft in the same area and they also found a body five miles down the everglades. The investigations continued throughout. There were things noticed that was clearly polished, questionable and what seemed to be real as part of an investigation...
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...1) Which article did you choose? The “CSI effect” | The Economist 2) What is the CSI effect? The CSI effect relates to the American legal system as jurors are susceptible to mistakes, such as wrongfully acquitting guilty defendants, due to inaccuracies in mainstream television crime dramas. Monica Robbers, an American criminologist, defines it as “the phenomenon in which jurors hold unrealistic expectations of forensic evidence and investigation techniques, and have an increased interest in the discipline of forensic science” (The Economist). 3) According to your article, how has the phenomenon affected various groups in the criminal justice system? Various groups within the criminal justice system have been affected by this phenomenon, both in and out of the courtroom. Prosecutors now often need to spend additional time explaining to juries why certain kinds of evidence are not relevant. Mr. Durnal explains that prosecutors have even introduced a “negative evidence”...
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...The main difference of the two TV shows, CSI and NCIS, is that CSI consists murders of the general public and NCIS consists of only military based murders. Both TV shows are unrealistic compared to the real world. CSI shows how dangerous the job can be by agents getting killed in a crime scene, which also shows how it can affects the investigations. NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigation Service), on the other hand, is a real government agency that only focuses on crimes that involve the military and the show NCIS is deals with many of the same cases as the real life agency. In my opinion, the more realistic show between CSI and NCIS would be NCIS. The show CSI is unrealistic to the real world because the crime scenes are really convenient, such as figuring out the time of death as quickly as they do and finding evidence that is scattered across the scene, which is very rare realistically. Each episode of the show the cases are very unique, where in real life, investigators are handed a lot of paperwork and the cases are always very similar. The fingerprint information and DNA comparisons are matched and returned to the investigators very quickly, which in reality it takes weeks to make a fingerprint match to a suspect that is unknown and breaking things down to genetic material will take even longer. Teams are usually very small and move very slow in investigations, in the show, they have teams of five or six to solve a crime and they move much quicker in solving the case. Also...
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...CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a drama television series about procedural forensics crime. Like much other television series, it packages those tedious work procedures with the dramatic storyline and tv technique. Make the crime scene investigation more attractive and excite to the audience. Although the cases are mostly based on the real crime scenes and the process of the investigation, however, there are parts that are dramatized by the television. The following is an analysis for how much of the real-life processes of the crime scene investigation technique have the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation season 1 episode 22: Evaluation Day, kept and how much they changed. One of the inaccuracies in the series that occurs repeatedly is that...
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...Somewhere in the world tonight there is a forensic scientist shaking their head while watching the latest episode of the CSI franchise. The reason why this may be is because in the real world things are handled and done very differently oppose to how it is shown on crime shows such as CSI: Miami and its other popular spinoffs. That is right, contrary to popular belief those who work within crime scene investigation do not go cruising down south beach in Miami, in their brand new hummer or have clever one liners, and dramatic music playing in the background. This field requires thorough examination and investigations of crime scenes and the scientific tools to allow each case to be solved. This obviously means that it is extremely tedious and...
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...Justice. These programs portray actual cases, but only after extreme and lengthy editing of the content and incorporating a narration voice over for dramatic effect. Other shows that are even more popular that are helping the media to blur the fine line between reality and fiction, even further, are the forensic dramas like: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Cold Case and Bones. These shows however, are not reality and create what is commonly known as “the CSI effect” and in my opinion have caused jurors to wrongly acquit guilty offenders when no scientific evidence has been presented to the jury by the prosecutors. The CSI effect is a phenomenon brought about by popular television shows such as: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Cold Case and Bones. and other forensic shows that are raising crime victims' and jury members' real-world expectations of the field of forensic science and type of forensic evidence that is presented by the prosecution. Much of these concerns come from the writers of forensic science television glamorizing the field, overstating the accuracy of forensic techniques, and exaggerating the abilities of forensic science. The CSI effect seems to skew public perceptions of real-world forensic science, as well as the behavior of criminal justice system actors; this is of particular concern in the courtroom setting, where many prosecutors feel pressured to deliver more forensic evidence, in order to convince the jury that the defendant is guilty. For...
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...Joel yawili Forensic science Vincent Maher Spring 2010 The CSI: New York episode “down the rabbit hole” starts off with a maintenance guy discovering a body lying on the floor of a inventory room full of mannequins. Next, the first officer arrives on the scene of the crime and, as explained on page 39 of the textbook, he isolates and secures the crime scene and we also see the maintenance guy being questioned. Later, the walk through of the scene is made and the photography unit proceeds in the capture of photos (p.). the forensic pathologist examines the stage of decomposition of the body and determines by evaluating the rigor mortis (p.21) that the victim has been dead for 5 hours. They also find out that the victim was shot in the head and discover a surgical tubing around the wrist of the victim. After a blood sample is taken, two dashes around the neck are noticed. Later in this episode we see two physical criminalists doing a spiral search of the crime scene with flash lights. A latent fingerprint(p.) is retrieved. During the body analysis, the pathologist in charge of the case finds a tick ( blood sucking insect found only in the woods) in one of the victim’s wounds. He reveals that the cuts on the neck were made by a surgical scalpel and that the tick was bloodless meaning, that it entered the wound prior to death. The ballistics unit (p.) identified the bullet as a 45 caliber weapon bullet which might have been mounted with a silencer. Also found at the crime...
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...Both, CSI and X Factor have been huge successes in their own respective genres. This essay will examine the similarities and differences in the ways and techniques that X Factor and CSI use to attract their audiences. Both texts attract a worldwide audience with over 30 countries having their own version of ‘X Factor’, and in 2006, CSI was named the most popular show in the world in a study of ratings in over 20 countries. These stats connote a measure of the popularity and dominance of these shows within their genres, and generally within the TV industry. The Uses and Gratifications theory can be applied to both these texts to show how they attract audience using the 4 stages. Firstly, personal identity, as X Factor is a contestant based show, and the people start the show as average everyday people, and this is connoted in their interview before their audition where they talk about their current life, and have very casual dress codes in a public and busy mise-en-scene. As the show progresses some of these contestants start to turn into ‘celebrities’ by gaining publicity, and this is connoted due to their change in dress codes, which is now smart and classy compared to casual before. Also connoted through their confidence, as at the start they are very nervous and modest, and as the competition progresses, depending on good results a person will gain self-confidence and gain more and more fans. An example of contestants that used the X Factor as a way to gain fame is One Direction...
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...CSI Report The wind moaned, along the corpses of many breathless souls, morbidly looking down at this anonymous man, lying dead on the most frigid, dreary, starless Christmas Eve night. Because of budget cuts in the Miami Police Department, I was the only forensic psychologist on call to decipher the hidden personality profile of this unknown man. Falling down eleven stories is a dreadful death sentence, but from the looks of the whole case, it looks like murder… Crouching down towards the unidentified man felt like the laws of gravity were reversing, attempting to push me back up, after the chills ran up my spine. Inspecting his Ralph Lauren tuxedo for any signs of damage was not helpful at all since this particular million dollar tuxedo was in finite condition. As I began to check the surroundings, all I could find were razor sharp shards of glass around him and a particular item crumpled in his hand. I slowly retrieved the item from his lifeless, indigo fingers, and noticed it was a picture, all torn up, with gashes unable to repair. The photo was of a happy looking family consisting of a beautiful brunette woman, the man sitting alongside her, and a toddler in between them, looking as happy as can be. Going against my theory of murder, I thought that this could have been a suicide case, but then I decided to investigate a little more. I slowly forced my hand into his jacket pocket and discovered another photo of a blonde woman even more gorgeous than the other. I soon began...
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...RC II-8 (4s and 5s) Providing your child with opportunities to "branch out" and make new friends can be a fun and rewarding way to grow important social skills. Materials: * Sky blue construction paper (your choice of size) * Green construction paper (enough to cut out one leaf per friend, plus enough for new friends to come) * Brown yarn * Liquid glue * Scissors * Felt tip marker for writing Directions: Provide a fun opportunity for your students to enjoy time together by "growing" individual Friend Trees. Begin by assisting each child in making a list of favorite friends, young and old. Use liquid glue to help each child trace a tree design onto a piece of blue paper. Before glue has time to dry, press brown yarn into the glue to outline or completely fill-in each tree trunk and branches. Allow glued yarn to dry. Use green paper to cut-out enough leaves for every name on each child's list, plus some extra leaves for future friends. Write one name on each leaf. Then glue leaves on the lower branches, working up and out. Keep supplies handy so each child can continue adding new friends until the Friend Trees are fully grown. Tip: Cut-out a heart design for tree leaves. Talk about It: Ask them to share characteristics that make a friend fun to play with. Then think about ways new friends can get to know each other better like playing games, cooking, and watching cartoons. Share ideas about how friends can show each other they...
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...Leadership Style Krystal Miller LDR/531 November 11, 2013 Dr. David Warren University of Phoenix Leadership Style A leader I admire the most is an actor on one of the greatest Television Shows. This leader shows great leadership in every aspect of his job. Each episode amazes more with his courage, respect for his team and how much his team and others learn from him. This leader is David Caruso, also known as, Lieutenant Horatio Caine of CSI: Miami. The Leader Lieutenant Horatio Caine is the head of the CSI team of the Miami Dade Police Department. He is a protective leader of his team and his victims. One of Horatio’s greatest traits is his loyalty to his team. On many of his shows he has went above and beyond to back his team members who are going through rough times. As a leader his is very concerned about the reputation of his lab. Horatio is the type of leader that feels responsible for those around him, and he has always kept calm on the job. Although he lives on instinct and is compelled to protect the city, he keeps his reputation. Evaluation Replace the level two heading with the words for your heading. The heading must be in bold font. Mentor Discussion Replace the level three heading with the words for your heading. The heading must be in bold font. References This is a hanging indent. To keep the hanging indent format, simply delete this line of text using the backspace key, and replace the information...
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...Nett – Promoter Scores & Customer Services Indicator Can we influence these metrics to our favor? Done by : Tatum Van Staden Nett-promoter score (NPS) and Customer Services Indicators (CSI) what are these two measures that we use in the call center and why are they so important to the businesses decision making process .These were some of the questions that led me to selecting NPS and CSI as my benchmarking topics, I wanted to better understand why we as a call center were measured on these aspects and I wanted a better understanding of how both these components worked and not just to see them as performance measures that had to be met because someone said they were important. Why should call center agents be measured on NPS and CSI (it is after all the customer’s opinion)? How do I know the customer is rating my service and not that of the company as a whole? How do I know that the scores are accurate? Within the Cell C call center the questions I posed above are some of the questions I get asked as a team leader to help my agent better understand what is expected of them and why .I understand that we ask the customers to rate our service so that we can measure how good or bad the services we are rendering to our customers are and also so that the business can learn through our customers where our energies need to be focused and how it is that we as Cell C could improve and grow our business , however it does leave room for the question though that : while we are asking...
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...Forensic Misconduct: Dr. Pamela A. Fish Kirstin L. Daniels Professor Ian Rodway George Mason University Forensic Misconduct: Pamela A Fish Forensic science is defined as the practice of utilizing scientific methodologies to clarify judicial inquiries. The field of forensic science contains a broad range of disciplines and has become a vital aspect of criminal investigations. Some forensic disciplines are laboratory-based; while others are based on an analyst’s interpretation of observable patterns (Kourtsounis, 2009). According to the Innocence project’s website; in greater than fifty percent of wrongful convictions, the use of invalidated or improper forensic techniques played a role in cases; which were later overturned by DNA testing. Unlike other forensic methods, serology has been subjected to rigorous scientific testing to achieve validation. Even still, these methods can be inaccurately conducted or counterfactually conveyed during the trial (Innocence Project, 2012). Since the evidence presented during a trial can be the difference between freedom, and incarceration in many cases and death in some cases, misconduct in the forensic field is not tolerated. Some types of forensic misconduct include exaggeration of statistics, false testimony and laboratory fraud. Evidence offered by forensic scientists is often called “expert testimony”. Nevertheless, what is an expert? Is it someone who has gone to school and earned an undergraduate, graduate...
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