Televisual waiting: Images of time and waiting in CSI

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-294
Author(s):  
Anita Lam
Keyword(s):  
Crime Scene ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Forensic Evidence ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Crime Scene Investigation ◽  
Crime Drama ◽  
Scene Investigation ◽  
Forensic Scientists ◽  
And Performance

As a massively popular crime drama, Crime Scene Investigation has circulated influential images and narratives that suggest that the processing and analysis of forensic evidence can be done in a swift and timely manner. The claim of such a CSI effect is based on the relative absence of waiting scenes within the series. This article examines the series’ multiple representations of time and waiting, linking the absence of waiting to the construction of forensic scientists as powerful figures of moral authority. In the episode Grave Danger, however, waiting is notably imagined as something that must be experienced and endured as a result of conviction. It is made analogous to death, and embodied through horizontality as well as by feminized waiters. Because the feminization of waiters also characterizes the representation of television viewers, I end by examining how the role of waiting in Crime Scene Investigation is intertwined with the viewer’s experience of watching the planned flow of network television. Ultimately, this article argues that the study of televisual waiting requires a recognition that images and narratives on network television emerge out of and depend on waiting as representation, experience, and performance.

scholarly journals The Need for Diversification of Forensic Tactical Rules Applicable to Crime Scene Investigation

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (33) ◽  
pp. 150-154
Author(s):  
Pavel Palcu
Keyword(s):  
Computer Technology ◽  
Organized Crime ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Crime Scene ◽  
Center Of Gravity ◽  
Crime Scene Investigation ◽  
Technology Intelligence ◽  
Scene Investigation

Abstract The unprecedented development of cybernetics was concretized by the emergence of computer technology in ways difficult to predict. In this context, the international underworld and organized crime have expanded the area of criminal acts, but equally there were new investigation possibilities for the police and judicial authorities, limiting the role of intuition and flair, of human spontaneity, the center of gravity falling on their ability to use new technology intelligence they have at their disposal.

The Role of Forensic Botany in Crime Scene Investigation: Case Report and Review of Literature

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 820-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Aquila ◽  
Francesco Ausania ◽  
Ciro Di Nunzio ◽  
Arianna Serra ◽  
Silvia Boca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Crime Scene ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Crime Scene Investigation ◽  
Scene Investigation

Theorizing the forensic gaze and the CSI shot in the multimodal ensemble of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2002–2015)

2021 ◽  
pp. 135485652110057
Author(s):  
Nashwa Elyamany
Keyword(s):  
Crime Scene ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Crime Scene Investigation ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Different Seasons ◽  
Scene Investigation ◽  
And Control

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ( (2002–2015) CBS, Alliance Atlantis Communications, CBS Paramount Network Television, Jerry Bruckheimer Television.) marks a paradigm shift in the post-9/11 forensic visual culture, ostensibly presenting physical evidence as a system of surveillance and control; the team of criminalists as ideologically complicit with state power; and high-tech forensic gadgetry as infallible and conducive to the culprit. In the melodramatic narrative strands, sophisticated plotlines, and spectacular performances of forensic science, CSI heavily rests on a novel and meticulously elaborated aesthetics that redefines the conception of gaze and camera shot in the weaving of episodes across the different seasons. A more nuanced comprehension of CSI’s visual forensic discourse is, therefore, necessitated to fully understand the cultural significance of these offerings. To this end, extending the work of Kress and Van Leuween on the systems of gaze and social distance in light of the Foucauldian and post-panoptic views on power and control, the article introduces fine-grained taxonomies of the forensic gaze and camera shot as fundamental aesthetics closely tied to post-9/11 extensive surveillance discourse. Resituating CSI in the broader context of the post-panopticon, the study argues that the drama series operates in a hybrid surveillance mode that surpasses conventional readings of panopticism, straddling the line between the physical and the digital in the contemporary age.

“He was Drugged up on Something...” Portrayals of Drugs and Violence on Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) as System Justification

2021 ◽  
pp. 002204262110344
Author(s):  
Tracy Sohoni ◽  
Julie Snell ◽  
Elizabeth Harden
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Crime Scene ◽  
System Justification ◽  
Crime Scene Investigation ◽  
Crime Drama ◽  
System Justification Theory ◽  
The Status ◽  
Scene Investigation ◽  
Systemic Violence ◽  
Legal Substances

We conducted a content analysis of the first two and last two seasons of the popular crime drama Crime Scene Investigation ( CSI), to determine the extent to which depictions of the intersection of substance use and violence were consistent with research. Using the lens of system justification theory, we find that CSI focuses on aspects of crime that preserve the status quo, specifically it overemphasizes the negative impact of illicit substances as opposed to legal substances (such as alcohol), and it emphasizes the psychopharmacological role of drugs in violent crime compared to systemic violence related to the illegality of drug markets, even though research demonstrates that systemic violence makes up a large proportion of substance-related homicides. Despite significant changes in drug policy that occurred during the time that CSI was on the air, we find these portrayals are largely unchanged between episodes that were broadcast between 2000–2002 versus those that aired 2014–2015.

scholarly journals Ten years of molecular ballistics—a review and a field guide

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Euteneuer ◽  
Cornelius Courts
Keyword(s):  
Model Building ◽  
Crime Scene ◽  
Forensic Evidence ◽  
Biological Targets ◽  
Contrast Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scene Investigation ◽  
Blood Pattern Analysis ◽  
Wound Ballistic ◽  
Objective Investigation

AbstractMolecular ballistics combines molecular biological, forensic ballistic, and wound ballistic insights and approaches in the description, collection, objective investigation, and contextualization of the complex patterns of biological evidence that are generated by gunshots at biological targets. Setting out in 2010 with two seminal publications proving the principle that DNA from backspatter collected from inside surfaces of firearms can be retreived and successfully be analyzed, molecular ballistics covered a lot of ground until today. In this review, 10 years later, we begin with a comprehensive description and brief history of the field and lay out its intersections with other forensic disciplines like wound ballistics, forensic molecular biology, blood pattern analysis, and crime scene investigation. In an application guide section, we aim to raise consciousness to backspatter traces and the inside surfaces of firearms as sources of forensic evidence. Covering crime scene practical as well as forensic genetic aspects, we introduce operational requirements and lay out possible procedures, including forensic RNA analysis, when searching for, collecting, analyzing, and contextualizing such trace material. We discuss the intricacies and rationales of ballistic model building, employing different tissue, skin, and bone simulants and the advantages of the “triple-contrast” method in molecular ballistics and give advice on how to stage experimental shootings in molecular ballistic research. Finally, we take a look at future applications and prospects of molecular ballistics.

scholarly journals Adaptive weights learning in CNN feature fusion for crime scene investigation image classification

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Liu Ying ◽  
Zhang Qian Nan ◽  
Wang Fu Ping ◽  
Chiew Tuan Kiang ◽  
Lim Keng Pang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Image Classification ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Crime Scene ◽  
Crime Scene Investigation ◽  
Adaptive Weights ◽  
Scene Investigation
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