Media and Criminal Justice: The CSI Effect. This item is unavailable.Media and Criminal Justice: The CSI Effect

Media and Criminal Justice: The CSI Effect illustrates how media coverage and television programs inform the public's perception of criminal justice. The CSI Effect can be characterized as the phenomenon whereby fiction is mistaken for reality and the assumption that all criminal cases can be solved through the employment of hi-tech forensic science such as crime scene investigation and DNA testing as depcited on television crime shows. This text provides broad, balanced, and comprehensive coverage of timely events in CSI, prosecutors, and wrongful convictions. The author explores some common misconceptions and helps readers towards a critical analysis of the information they see in the media and entertainment.

Dennis J. Stevens, Ph.D. is the Managing Director of Justice Writers of America (JWA),'an organization guiding justice personnel (by invitation only) to articulate their experiences in a confidential setting. Fore more information, see www.crimeprofessor.com. Stevens has taught criminal psychology in major universities and counseled high-risk prisoners at Chicago, Charlotte, Boston, and New Orleans. He has led crisis intervention sessions among Boston and New York City officers after 9/11 and the Boston Marathon bombing, New Orleans and Houston officers after Hurricane Katrina, and Chicago and Dallas officers after the execution-style murders of their own.'