CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 2) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 2) The second season of "" premiered on CBS on September 27, 2001 and ended May 16, 2002. The series stars William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger. The murder of a Police Chief leads Willows and Brown to Miami ("Cross Jurisdictions"), in the second season of "CSI". The Las Vegas CSIs investigate another series of gruesome, unprecedented, and unsolvable crimes, including the murder of Catherine's brother ("Burked"), the disappearance of a University student ("Chaos Theory"), the death of a construction worker ("Overload"), the discovery of a decomposed body in a bag ("Bully for You"), a scuba
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation recruitment and training programs have seen a massive increase in applicants, with a far wider range of people now interested in something previously regarded as a scientific backwater. The ""CSI" effect" is a reference to the alleged phenomenon of "CSI" raising crime victims' and jury members' real-world expectations of forensic science, especially crime-scene investigation and DNA testing. This is said to have changed the way many trials are presented today, in that prosecutors are pressured to deliver more forensic evidence in court. Victims and their families are coming to expect instant answers from showcased techniques such as DNA analysis and