Roadmap, B2+, Workbook, 2020

Roadmap, B2+, Workbook, 2020.

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Prime-time crime and the justice system.
Few of us break the law or are, fortunately, victims of crime, therefore few of us learn about our justice system through actual experience. This allows prime-time crime dramas to provide that experience. The effect of this is that we gain a poor understanding of what happens within the criminal justice system. First off is our knowledge of police work. In these dramas, the officers spend all their time investigating one crime with usually a positive outcome achieved at all costs. In reality, of course, most police spend their time building relationships with people in local areas. Detectives investigate several crimes at once, sometimes with no favourable outcome at all. It is possible that watching TV crime dramas actually helps us to see the police in a more positive light than we would otherwise do, with experts suggesting that when we come across the police in the real world, we may be more open to them.

As well as influencing our perceptions of police work, prime-time crime dramas may also heavily influence our understanding of the justice system. One example of this is the CSI effect - named after the globally popular crime drama CSI. The drama follows investigators as they examine evidence at the scene of a crime and use that evidence to solve the crime (which usually involves also interrogating suspects and pursuing them; something that would never happen in the real world). Many in the legal industry now believe that by watching this sort of drama, jurors expect much more forensic evidence than is actually necessary and have therefore raised the level of evidence needed to secure a guilty verdict. While studies suggest this may be caused by developing technology rather than TV shows, it is clear to everyone that these shows have prompted lawyers to change the way they present evidence in criminal court cases.

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