CSI EFFECT

The C.S.I. effect has been a strong topic for the last few years with so many different arguments going on with both sides of the topic. There are many people that believe that the C.S.I. effect is helping criminals by showing them how to get rid of evidence making it harder for a C.S.I. to do his job. They say criminals are learning from these forensic shows that started back in 2000 with C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation and in the last decade has spawned into 13 other shows about investigating crime scenes and showing how they are solved. They are backing this by saying that in 2000 when C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation came out the percent of rape cases solved was are 46.9 and dropped to 41.3 percent in 2005. Also statements of some rape victims say that the person that raped them made them shower and was with bleach before they left the scene. Then you got people on the other side of the argument saying that statistics show that 90 percent of criminals are uneducated and would learn nothing from these shows. They say that if anything these shows scare the uneducated criminals away from doing the crimes when they see how easily these crimes get solved on television and they believe that its all real and everything they do on the show is how its done so they become to scared to try any crimes. The creators of these shows claim that everything they show on their shows is real techniques when it’s been estimated by a forensic scientist named Thomas Mauriello that 40 percent of the scientific techniques depicted on C.S.I. don’t actually exist. Then you have more people arguing that The techniques that don’t exist on these shows inspire scientists to invent these things and advance crime scene technology like in 2006, IBM worked with the Memphis Police Department and developed new software that can predict crime locations and time frames, an idea that they got from the movie Minority Report that came out in 2002. A lot of inventions have been taken from science fiction movies that came out in the past.