THE EFFECT OF CSI MOVIES AND GAMES OVER THE PERCEPTION OF STUDENTS RELATED TO THE NEED OF THE USE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN TRAINING FORENSIC SCIENTISTS
THE EFFECT OF CSI MOVIES AND GAMES OVER THE PERCEPTION OF STUDENTS RELATED TO THE NEED OF THE USE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN TRAINING FORENSIC SCIENTISTS

Summary/Abstract: Current paper tackles the perception of the students to be trained within the area of Forensic Science - from Romanian Police Academy - related to the impact of the information transmitted thru games and Crime Scene Investigation movie series. It is well known that such game and movie series received a positive impact from the public, and furthermore some of their target public were also highly attracted by the idea of becoming forensic scientists or, at least, to gain some basic knowledge related to this domain. On the other hand, those moves and games were presenting a distorted reality related to the actual possibilities of work in the field of forensic science. As such, the authors of present paper have evaluated the possibility to assess the psychological impact that such information had over the students trained within the area of forensic science from the point of view of motivation, desire to adapt to real possibilities of work, the need to implement modern technologies of work and learn, the usefulness of such technologies and other similar question. The target groups of present study were chosen from students from first, second and third year of study from Romanian Police Academy - considering the reality that the students from first year of studies might be willing to become forensic scientists based on the perception of a potentially distorted image related to the domain, while the ones from the second year of studies have already studied the domain (at an initial stage), and the ones from the third year are at the end of their studies. The main research method is the questionnaire method.

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