Abstract
The popular American television dramatic series, Crime Scene Investigation (CSI), with its emphasis on forensic analysis, has become an icon for anxieties within the legal system about truth- fi nding and legal outcomes. This chapter reviews empirical research on the “CSI effect” and then explores cultural dimensions of the show as suggested by analysis of its paradigms and style rather than the narrative content of speci fi c episodes. CSI is related to larger trends within American legal culture and raises questions about the future of the rule of law.
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Spiesel, C. O. (2014). Trial by ordeal: CSI and the rule of law. In Law, Culture and Visual Studies (pp. 825–847). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9322-6_37
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