CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION

Crime Scene Investigation

Crime Scene Investigation

What is the CSI Effect? Make sure you detail how it affects prosecutors, police and scientists in the field as well as the criminal justice system.

Crime Scene Investigation involves the use of scientific methods, physical evidence, deductive reasoning, and their interrelationships to gain explicit knowledge of the series of events that surround the commission of a crime. Crime scene investigation is to scrutinize the place of crime and its vicinity to gather the forensic evidences of the crime. Although this process seems simple enough, it is a complex task even learned crime scene investigators require years of work experience before they are able to develop the skills to become better at this job. The CSI effect also shows how one can commit crimes, experts in the area have noticed an increase in criminal cases where the suspects manipulated the evidence (for example, the use of chlorine to destroy evidence of DNA), or attempt to clean the crime scene carefully to avoid leaving fingerprints, such as hairs, fibers, or clothing (Gilbert, 2000, pp. 134-145). With regard to the CSI Effect, what would be some advantages to using professional juries? What would be some disadvantages? Should the US keep the present jury system? Or, is another option available? Please defend all answers to these questions.

Although speculation about the validity of the CSI effect abound, only recently have researchers begun to study the effect of CSI on the behavior of juries. An empirical study of the effects of the series suggested that viewers CSI, and other programs of the genre, critical forensic science shown in them, and are less convinced of it, however, those differences were not found in the viewers of shows like Law & Order (and other crime in general), which implies that the CSI effect is limited to those who are solely focused programs in forensic science (Anderson, 2011, pp.84). Another study surveyed potential jurors and could not find a link between watching CSI and increased demand of evidence to convict a defendant. A third study examined the perceptions of the jurors in a mock criminal trial, finding that the verdicts of CSI viewers were not significantly different from those who see no series (Greenwood, 1975, pp. 45). People who overestimate the real basis of programs such as CSI. Although the technologies shown in these programs of fiction are praised, in reality, the various techniques shown require more time to give a definite answer on the analysis of evidence. Analysts fear that people come to believe that forensic science real becomes as quick and safe as can be seen at shows (Evans, 1996, pp. 237-242).What are the most important aspects to an Ethical Code? Why? Please develop and discuss four important requirements for an Ethical Code for forensic scientists.

The basic ethical values of forensic psychological examination

Extremely important component of professional forensic psychologist is to carry out certain ethical principles and rules. Unfortunately, however, the ethical problems of psychological experts, as well as psychologists and other specialties, in our literature have not been ...