FLVS Forensic Science Mod 1 Text Questions

1. What do you think you'd like most about working as a forensic scientist? Why? What do you think you'd like least about working as a forensic scientist? Why? I think what I’d like most about working as a forensic scientist is piecing the evidence together and making a timeline of what occurred at the crime scene. I think it would be really cool to have that “aha” moment while evaluating and analyzing evidence, and to be able to realize and understand from one item how it relates to a crime. I think I would like this because it would be interesting to be able to see a piece of evidence, and study it, and be able to fit the pieces together with other evidence and understand how they all relate to each other. I think what I’d like least about working as a forensic scientist is having to discriminate between relevant evidence and irrelevant evidence, and having to work through frustrating cases where the evidence doesn’t seem to match up.
2. Do you think you suffer from the "CSI effect"? Why or why not? What problems do you think this "effect" has on the criminal justice system? I think that to a certain extent I do suffer from the “CSI effect”. This is because the entire reason I’m so interested in the field of forensics is from watching crime shows such as NCIS and other forensic documentaries. Doing this might have given me an unrealistic expectation of how the study of forensics worked. However, I do understand that this field isn’t as quick and simple as portrayed on television, and even knowing this, I’m still just as interested in the field. I think that this effect causes problems in the criminal justice system such as people who give up on cases more easily than they otherwise would, because they would perceive the analyzing of evidence to be a slower process. It could also mean that there are people in the field less motivated, because their job isn’t what they expected.