Topic: Crime/Forensic Shows are not real and how they are not real-The CSI Effect. (Pro: Educating television viewers). o AGD: How many times have you watched crime or forensics shows, where you have realized something on the show is not possible or realistic? Crime and forensic shows are often, a favorite by television viewers. They are fun, yet more dramatical than educational. It is not often that a viewer realizes that details and parts of the show are false, it may take a trained eye to do so.
Thesis: Crime and forensics show incorrect procedures, fictional technology, and wrong job descriptions that wrongfully educate viewers to believe that law enforcement and forensic scientists are not doing their work correctly and help wrongfully …show more content…
Then, the lack of educational benefits included in crime and forensics shows, as well as how the viewer’s minds can be changed after watching these shows. o Transition to Body Points 1: First, we can look at collecting evidence, such as DNA testing and fingerprinting at the crime scene, how these processes work correctly or may not work with the investigations and how these processes take place.
Body points:
DNA tests take longer than a few days to analyze and compare to other samples
Sub point 1: Often fingerprints and evidence will not lift from surfaces (Staff, 2005)
Sub point 2: It is estimated that around 26% of the cases taken by the FBI Lab are latent prints are usable and identifiable (Wood,2008).
Sub point 3: there are approximately 1,900 mistaken fingerprint matches per year (Staff,2005). o Transition to Body Points 2: Then, we can look at the lack of educational benefits that are included in these shows, and how the audience may have unrealistic expectations of past and modern crime and forensics processes.
There are no educational benefits from crime and forensic drama/television
Thesis: Crime and forensics show incorrect procedures, fictional technology, and wrong job descriptions that wrongfully educate viewers to believe that law enforcement and forensic scientists are not doing their work correctly and help wrongfully …show more content…
Then, the lack of educational benefits included in crime and forensics shows, as well as how the viewer’s minds can be changed after watching these shows. o Transition to Body Points 1: First, we can look at collecting evidence, such as DNA testing and fingerprinting at the crime scene, how these processes work correctly or may not work with the investigations and how these processes take place.
Body points:
DNA tests take longer than a few days to analyze and compare to other samples
Sub point 1: Often fingerprints and evidence will not lift from surfaces (Staff, 2005)
Sub point 2: It is estimated that around 26% of the cases taken by the FBI Lab are latent prints are usable and identifiable (Wood,2008).
Sub point 3: there are approximately 1,900 mistaken fingerprint matches per year (Staff,2005). o Transition to Body Points 2: Then, we can look at the lack of educational benefits that are included in these shows, and how the audience may have unrealistic expectations of past and modern crime and forensics processes.
There are no educational benefits from crime and forensic drama/television