The CSI Effect: Reality Check

The assignment aims to explore the 'CSI effect', where TV shows like Crime Scene Investigation influence public perception of forensic science, leading jurors to expect more scientific evidence in criminal trials and affecting their decisions, ultimately negatively impacting the criminal justice system.

Kim 1
Juhee Kim
Dan Hurley
English 102
02/01/2017
Short Proposal
This research paper aims at revealing the effects of the television shows of Crime Scene
Investigation to the public. The CSI effect is a phenomenon in which the forensic science on
crime television shows influences public perception. It really does exist in reality because jurors
expect more scientific evidences which are shown inside the television criminal case. And also
jurors have unrealistic expectations of forensic science during a criminal trial and affect their
decisions in the conviction. It has negatively impacted the criminal justice system. Audience of
the paper would be general because the paper intends to increase awareness of the public in
matters regarding the effect of Crime Scene Investigation Shows to the general thinking of both
the juries and the civilians. The Crime Scene Investigation shows have a primary role in
determining the how the court may rule against a given crime being investigated in the particular
show.