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Watching forensic science dramas and crime shows such as Sherlock Holmes or the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation may not give potential criminals the ability to conceal a crime, a study has found. Challenging the so-called "CSI effect", which claims criminals who watch crime shows are more likely to evade capture, psychologists revealed that there is no evidence of a correlation between watching forensic science shows and the ability to get away with committing a crime.