How has crime scene television affected our perception of reality? Crime scene television has altered the average American s understanding of forensics and detectives the point that the believe forensics is an infallible science that is always accurate and does not have processes that can be contaminated by human involvement and error. The police process is also depicted to be much shorter and the investigation moving much more quickly than either would in real life. This makes for good television
evidence to have in a court room. I will also explain the CSI effect weather its real or not. Also in this paper you will read about some cases that used some type of evidence to catch the defendant that killed the victim. Some of the cases include the OJ Simpson case, the brown vs Officer Wilson case, and a case about Joyce Gilchris. DNA is a big part of evidence, DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. There are different types of evidence, it just depends on the crime and type of trail you are going