Comments on: Does the ‘CSI Effect’ Exist? http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1579 A place to collate information of interest in a forensic psychological context Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:36:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: PsychBLOG.co.uk » PSYlent: 22nd July 2007 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1579&cpage=1#comment-107852 PsychBLOG.co.uk » PSYlent: 22nd July 2007 Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:11:12 +0000 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1579#comment-107852 [...] Channel to ’study’ how to litrally get away with murder. But is this really the case? CrimePsychBlog might have the [...] [...] Channel to ’study’ how to litrally get away with murder. But is this really the case? CrimePsychBlog might have the [...]

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]]> By: Gregg Barak http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1579&cpage=1#comment-75623 Gregg Barak Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:18:47 +0000 http://crimepsychblog.com/?p=1579#comment-75623 As one of the co-authors of "A Study of Juror Expectations and Demands Concerning Scientific Evidence...", I think one of the most interesting hypotheses about the alleged CSI effect that we did not investigate is whether or not attorneys, particularly prosecutors and criminal defense lawyers and to a lesser extent judges and other legal litigators, have or are experiencing a "CSI effect? I happen to believe that we would find that a positive relationship does exist here. In other words, if there is an effect, it has little, if anything, to do with jurors and perhaps everything to do with the criminal legal profession. An easy test of this hypothesis would be to track the opening and closing statements of prosecutors and defense attorneys before and after the popularity of the TV series and its spin off on the various criminal trial scenarios that we tested. In short, these prosecuting and defense attorneys are paying attention and shaping their arguments on their rising expectations of what they think "jurors want" based on their own changing expectations from watching these TV dramas. Gregg Barak As one of the co-authors of “A Study of Juror Expectations and Demands Concerning Scientific Evidence…”, I think one of the most interesting hypotheses about the alleged CSI effect that we did not investigate is whether or not attorneys, particularly prosecutors and criminal defense lawyers and to a lesser extent judges and other legal litigators, have or are experiencing a “CSI effect?

I happen to believe that we would find that a positive relationship does exist here. In other words, if there is an effect, it has little, if anything, to do with jurors and perhaps everything to do with the criminal legal profession. An easy test of this hypothesis would be to track the opening and closing statements of prosecutors and defense attorneys before and after the popularity of the TV series and its spin off on the various criminal trial scenarios that we tested.

In short, these prosecuting and defense attorneys are paying attention and shaping their arguments on their rising expectations of what they think “jurors want” based on their own changing expectations from watching these TV dramas.

Gregg Barak

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