The series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is based in Las Vegas, Nevada, but is shot for the most part in Los Angeles. Both in the U.S. and in Europe, the television broadcast since September 2000 series is very popular.

Due to the great success of the series, CSI: Miami and CSI: New York were placed on the market as a spin-offs in 2002 and 2004, with the two offshoots gaining great popularity. If only the name CSI is called, it’s normally CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, sometimes CSI is also written C.S.I.

CSI stands for Crime Scene Investigation, i.e. crime scene investigation. Unlike many other crime series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation shows the search for the culprit from the perspective of the work of the evidence and evidence tracing. Here, the crime scene investigators of the criminal police of Las Vegas can be observed in their work. The audience sees how the evidence found at the scene is treated and how to proceed further with it.

All episodes of the three series are based on the Whodunit principle. This means that the audience gets to see neither the act nor the sequence of events at the beginning of an episode. Their level of information is similar to that of the investigating specialists that he observes during each detection step, until the offender is identified at the end of the case. Since two crimes happen in most episodes, the investigative team divides in two to pursue the investigation of these cases.

In contrast to the realistic policing, these crimes are mostly cleared up during the episode, greatly simplifying the work of crime scene investigators on TV in order to keep on the diplomatic tension for the viewer.

Visual effects are often used in the CSI series. In CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, some of these are slow motion flying bullets or shots going down to microscopic detail.

Investigators of the CSI Las Vegas Team

Gilbert „Gil“ Grissom (played by William L. Petersen)

Grissom is the chief of the night shift of the Las Vegas Crime Lab. Work always comes first for the single investigator. In its ninth season, Grissom leaves the team.

Catherine Willows (played by Marg Helgenberger)

In addition to Dr. Grissom, Willows is the longest serving employee of the night shift of the Crime Lab. She specializes in the analysis of blood and she is appointed as head after Grissom's resignation.

Warrick Brown (played by Gary Dourdan)

Brown is the team specialist for audio visual analysis. Due to his previous addiction he has very good contacts with many bars and casinos in Las Vegas. At the end of season eight, Warrick Brown is shot by a corrupt police officer.

Nick Stokes (played by George Eads)

Stokes is a technical and forensic investigator in the CSI team. Before the Las Vegas Crime Lab, he worked for the forensic lab in Dallas.

Sara Sidle (played by Jorja Fox)

Sara Sidles, whose specialty is material analysis, came to the Las Vegas Crime Lab after one of Grissom’s co-workers was shot and he needed Sara to reinforce the Las Vegas team

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Greg Sanders (played by Eric Szmanda)

Sanders iss a lab technician at the Las Vegas Crime Lab. His area of ??responsibility includes among other things, DNA analysis and genetic testing. Since the fifth season Sanders has worked as a Crime Scene Investigator.

Dr. Raymond Langston (played by Laurence Fishburne)

The surgeon, pathologist and psychologist Dr. Langston has been active since the ninth season to strengthen the team of the Las Vegas Crime Lab. He was suggested by Dr. Grissom, who left the team shortly thereafter.

Jim Brass (played by Paul Guilfoyle)

Brass was the head of CSI Las Vegas, before he was appointed head of homicide.

Using the example of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, other television productions have emerged dealing with forensics, crime scene investigation and evidence showing how much television affects humans.

Towards the end of the 1980’s, many high school graduates were influenced by the series L.A. Law to study law. According to an article in the Western Mail Welsh, it now seems as if the CSI series exerted a similar effect on students as L.A. Law. The number of students who opted for a scientific study of biology, medicine and chemistry increased in recent years by more than four percent.

You may find all episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation here.