Media and Criminal Justice: The CSI EffectMedia and Criminal Justice: The CSI Effect illustrates how media coverage and television programs inform the public’s perception of criminal justice. The CSI Effect can be characterized as the phenomenon whereby fiction is mistaken for reality and the assumption that all criminal cases can be solved through the employment of hi-tech forensic science such as crime scene investigation and DNA testing as depcited on television crime shows. This text provides broad, balanced, and comprehensive coverage of timely events in CSI, prosecutors, and wrongful convictions. The author explores some common misconceptions and helps readers towards a critical analysis of the information they see in the media and entertainment. |
Contents
The Media and the CSI Effect | 1 |
Motion Pictures Popular Televison Dramas and New Reports | 29 |
Wars on Crime and Junkies | 51 |
War on Sex Offenders and Poverty | 89 |
Terrorism and the War on Immigrants | 121 |
Chapter 6 Crime Scene Investigations Foresics and Junk Science | 157 |
Prosecutors | 197 |
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