And when it comes to the gulf between reality and fiction, Dr Knight knows what he is talking about: besides 43 years' experience of attending crime scenes, he has also written dozens of crime novels.The upshot of this is that a new phrase has entered the criminological lexicon: the "CSI effect" after shows such as "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation".
And Channel Five's CSI: Miami took third place at 9pm - only 500,000 viewers behind BBC1's Mrs Pritchard.
Films such as "Ocean's Eleven" (a sequel, "Ocean's Twelve", is coming) and TV shows such as "CSI" (Crime Scene Investigation), have presented images of the Strip to millions of viewers around the world.
In 2008 Monica Robbers, an American criminologist, defined it as "the phenomenon in which jurors hold unrealistic expectations of forensic evidence and investigation techniques, and have an increased interest in the discipline of forensic science".Now another American researcher has demonstrated that the "CSI effect" is indeed real.
Cop shows like "CSI" give juries the idea that scientific evidence is almost infallible.
Since America's blast furnaces are ageing and expensive to rebuild, some of its biggest steel firms, such as AK Steel and California Steel Industries (CSI), are resorting to importing Brazilian slabs.
In the mid-infrared region a variety of optical-grade crystals, such as calcium flouride (CaF2), zinc selenide (ZnSe), cesium iodide (CsI), or potassium bromide (KBr), coated with silicon or germanium are employed.
Dubbed "the CSI effect", this phenomenon became increasingly worrisome as scientists began criticising forensic specialities as junk science.
So although we do work together, it's not the way it's portrayed on CSI or Silent Witness, say, where they play a large part of the forensic investigation team".
Hey come in, all you redundant politicians, businessmen, scientists, (particularly forensic, because we all love CSI), bankers, soldiers, statisticians, boiler-makers, dog-trainers, customs officers and police superintendents, and teach classes of 30-plus.
This morning the police CSI teams have been at Vallecas.
