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61 Stan. L. Rev. 1335 (2008-2009)
Investigating the CSI Effect Effect: Media and Litigation Crisis in Criminal Law

handle is hein.journals/stflr61 and id is 1347 raw text is: ARTICLES INVESTIGATING THE 'CSIEFFECT' EFFECT: MEDIA AND LITIGATION CRISIS IN CRIMINAL LAW Simon A. Cole* & Rachel Dioso-Villa** INTRO DUCTION ....................................................................................................1336 I. TYPOLOGY OF CSI EFFECTS ..............................................................................1343 II. EVIDENCE OF THE CSI EFFECT........................................................................1349 A. Anecdotes ..................................................................................................1341 B . Surveys of Legal Actors............................................................................. 1351 C. Juror Surveys ............................................................................................1353 D . Psychological Experim ents .......................................................................1355 E . A cquittal R ate D ata ...................................................................................1356 III. MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE CSI EFFECT ..........................................................1364 IV. A SELF-FULFILLING OR SELF-DENYING PROPHECY? ...................1370 CONCLUSION........................................................................................................1372 * Associate Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine; Ph.D. (science & technology studies), Cornell University; A.B., Princeton University. ** Doctoral candidate, Criminology, Law & Society, University of California, Irvine; M.A. (criminology), University of Toronto; B.Sc., University of Toronto. For research assistance, we are grateful to Kasey Perry and Nicole Bucur. For assistance obtaining acquittal rate data, we are grateful to Thomas Keller and Sharon Iwai of the State of Hawai'i Judiciary, Patrick Tamer of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts, and Christine A. Loso of the Vermont Court Administrators Office. We are also grateful for the assistance of Charles Loeffler, Jennifer Christian, Richard McCleary, John R. Hipp, and Elizabeth Loftus and for the thorough editing and convening of a symposium by the Stanford Law Review staff. This project was funded in part by the National Science Foundation (Award #SES-0347305). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. 1335

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