Cavender, talks about one of the top-rated television programs in the United States. He observes the cultural meaning of CSI. The article demonstrates how crime, deviance, and social control are represented in the media culture we experience everyday. Media is such a huge influence in our lives today. The research Cavender provides, gives examples of how individuals’ everyday interactions, with media, consumes and shape their attitudes about crime. The media has an important role of cultural knowledge and in this case, reinforces the idea of mutual understanding about crime. This research is strictly based of CSI’s first season starting in 2000. The first season resulted in combined realism and drama, that produced characteristics of fact or fiction.
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The franchise has had a large cultural impact. It even created a concept known as the “CSI effect”. The CSI effect gives juries an unreasonable expectations of real-life forensics because of what they have seen on CSI. This effect has some positive impacts including the increase in interests for forensic science and class enrollment. CSI, including Las Vegas and Miami, follows crime investigators to use physical evidence to solve murders. The show strongly shows acceptance of scientific evidence and proves that science itself is a valid evidence. Also, all cases during the season are solved in the crime lab which delivers an idea that a jury is unnecessary. The article emphasis that there is no better judge than science. The most important strength in this show is the strength of diversity. All the episodes are different and diverse when talking about gender, race, family, work and/or crime. Research was very strong in areas that involved gender and the role males and females play. Maybe even gave females a little more credit, which is very
The franchise has had a large cultural impact. It even created a concept known as the “CSI effect”. The CSI effect gives juries an unreasonable expectations of real-life forensics because of what they have seen on CSI. This effect has some positive impacts including the increase in interests for forensic science and class enrollment. CSI, including Las Vegas and Miami, follows crime investigators to use physical evidence to solve murders. The show strongly shows acceptance of scientific evidence and proves that science itself is a valid evidence. Also, all cases during the season are solved in the crime lab which delivers an idea that a jury is unnecessary. The article emphasis that there is no better judge than science. The most important strength in this show is the strength of diversity. All the episodes are different and diverse when talking about gender, race, family, work and/or crime. Research was very strong in areas that involved gender and the role males and females play. Maybe even gave females a little more credit, which is very