Since its introduction to viewers in 2000, “CSI” and other popular shows of the genre - from “Law & Order” to “Bones” to “Dexter” - have drawn a swell of public imagination to the world of forensic science, as well as popular myths about the profession, otherwise known as the “CSI Effect.” That year, the show’s estimated 63 million viewers across five continents earned it the title of “most watched television show in the world” for the fifth time in the show’s history at the Monte Carlo Television Festival. In 2012, CBS’s crime-fiction television drama, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” reached the zenith of primetime television ratings.
