An Irish take on the “CSI Effect”

The para­graph below sums up what the “CSI Effect” is bril­liantly. The rest of the arti­cle goes on to talk about dif­fer­ences from the real­ity, and the pop­u­lar TV show.

…a phe­nom­e­non called “the CSI effect” has been wryly noted, whereby CSI –savvy jurors have an unrea­son­ably high expec­ta­tion of what foren­sic evi­dence can prove. After all, if slightly creepy CSI boss Gil Grissom and his team can work their sci­ence magic, week in, week out, on the mur­dered in Las Vegas, surely it can’t be that difficult.

Original arti­cle posted here: