CSI effect

From the CSI effect is spoken in the jurisprudence of the United States, if the effects of criminological television series on the behavior of both jurors and criminals are examined.

The term refers to the fact that the jury in U.S. courts since the mid-1990s, influenced by numerous forensics thematisierende television series such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, increasingly insist on forensic evidence and the lack thereof are more likely culprit for are innocent, or if the evidence against the accused speak, convict him in disregard of other circumstances.

After some judgments could be attributed to such behavior, many U.S. prosecutors have now gone over to reject jurors, posing as fans of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation denote the trace, Crossing Jordan or similar series.

One problem is that many of the series are no documentaries on real criminal cases, but represent imaginary, and some of the options shown are pure fiction, because they go beyond the state of the art or even for reasons of principle are impossible. For example, the magnification of images to look different as often on television, set by the resolution of the optics and the grain of the film or the number of pixels of the CCD chip principled limits. Also, duration, distribution, error rate and reliability of analyzes are not always portrayed realistically. Thus, victims and relatives of victims are apparently increasingly dissatisfied with police investigations, since they are difficult to convey that analyzes and reports may require days or even months, instead of being virtually immediately available, as shown in the series.

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