Tom R. Tyler

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Is the CSI Effect Good Science?

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Viewing CSI and the Threshold of Guilt: Managing Truth and Justice in Reality and Fiction

The "CSI effect" is a term that legal authorities and the mass media have coined to describe a supposed influence that watching the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has on juror behavior. Some have claimed that jurors who see the high-quality forensic evidence presented on CSI raise their standards in real trials, in which actual evidence is typically more...