CSI Lovers: The Elements of CSI?!
Question: CSI Lovers: The Elements of CSI!?
i have a law project due and we are analysing the realistic and non realistic aspects of the investigation that they do!. can any csi lovers help me think of any!? (i need 5 realistic and 5 non-realistic in total)
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Answers:
Realistic:
-Some of the terminology
-The 'lab tech' jobs
-Contrary to what Dee M said, autopsy does not actually take a couple days, it's just usually a couple days before someone gets around to it!. An average forensic autopsy only takes hours, and can be done very promptly if circumstances require (especially in cases where the victim's religion requires that they be buried within X hours of death, or there's something where the results are needed ASAP)
Ummm!.!.!. I'm running out of realistic here!.
Non-realistic:
-CSI's do not usually carry guns, nor interrogate suspects, or anything like that!. They mostly sit in labs and analyse things, or take samples and photographs from crime scenes!.
-You can't look at someone's corpse and find some indicator that says "Oh, she was 35 years and 4 months old"!. Time and age can be really fuzzy in the real world!.
-Similarly, you can't say "Time of death was about 10 hours ago"!. Sorry, a body that's really been dead for 10 hours would look like it could be anywhere between 4 and 24 hours dead, in NORMAL circumstances!.!.!. let's not even mention accelerated or delayed decomposition!.
-And, more on the 'age' thing, you can tell if an injury was post-mortem, ante-mortem, or peri-mortem!. However, you can't say "oh, there's a 5-day-old bruise' or a '2-day-old laceration' - you just identify things like that as 'old' or 'new' or 'partially healed'!.
-You can't say "Oh, this weapon made this injury" in court most of the time, you should say "A weapon of this type" instead, unless you've got firm evidence like blood from the victim on the weapon, and usually you don't!.
-Plus, the computer systems are laughably amazing, and everyone's oh-so-conveniently in some database!. If we really had technology like that, we'd be catching a whole lot more criminals!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
-Some of the terminology
-The 'lab tech' jobs
-Contrary to what Dee M said, autopsy does not actually take a couple days, it's just usually a couple days before someone gets around to it!. An average forensic autopsy only takes hours, and can be done very promptly if circumstances require (especially in cases where the victim's religion requires that they be buried within X hours of death, or there's something where the results are needed ASAP)
Ummm!.!.!. I'm running out of realistic here!.
Non-realistic:
-CSI's do not usually carry guns, nor interrogate suspects, or anything like that!. They mostly sit in labs and analyse things, or take samples and photographs from crime scenes!.
-You can't look at someone's corpse and find some indicator that says "Oh, she was 35 years and 4 months old"!. Time and age can be really fuzzy in the real world!.
-Similarly, you can't say "Time of death was about 10 hours ago"!. Sorry, a body that's really been dead for 10 hours would look like it could be anywhere between 4 and 24 hours dead, in NORMAL circumstances!.!.!. let's not even mention accelerated or delayed decomposition!.
-And, more on the 'age' thing, you can tell if an injury was post-mortem, ante-mortem, or peri-mortem!. However, you can't say "oh, there's a 5-day-old bruise' or a '2-day-old laceration' - you just identify things like that as 'old' or 'new' or 'partially healed'!.
-You can't say "Oh, this weapon made this injury" in court most of the time, you should say "A weapon of this type" instead, unless you've got firm evidence like blood from the victim on the weapon, and usually you don't!.
-Plus, the computer systems are laughably amazing, and everyone's oh-so-conveniently in some database!. If we really had technology like that, we'd be catching a whole lot more criminals!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
In real life when crime scene investigators enter a crime scene they usually wear protective clothing and those little bootees over their shoes!. On tv they have the teams arriving on scene for every crime while in real life it is only the major ones they would be disected so closely, and very seldom can one police department afford all the expensive equipment they use in the crime lab!. Usually police departments are run on a tight budget and they have to requisition for overtime, and there is seldom money left over to pourchase state of the art computer gadgets!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
the time it takes for test results it usually takes weeks!.
autopsy it usually takes like a few days but they do it straight away!.
when they use luminol they are supposed to wear protective clothing and masks but they dont!.
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autopsy it usually takes like a few days but they do it straight away!.
when they use luminol they are supposed to wear protective clothing and masks but they dont!.
uh and i cant think of anything else but i'll add sum more if i can rememberWww@Enter-QA@Com
timescale would be the most obvious, as is protective clothing, but as i am not a csi its hard to say!. i love the show though!!Www@Enter-QA@Com
Non realistic: the time it takes for some tests to come back might be days even weeks but there its a matter of hours !.Www@Enter-QA@Com