The show CSI: Miami is a spinoff of the popular CSI. The series began when the characters on the original CSI had to travel to Miami in pursuit the murder of the Las Vegas chief of police. The episode of the original CSI television show that CSI: Miami was spun off of is entitled "Cross Jurisdictions." It was in this episode that Catherine Willows and Warrick Brown traveled to Miami in order to investigate the murder of Las Vegas' chief of police. CSI: Miami has also crossed over with CSI: NY twice where characters from CSI: NY were featured in the second season of CSI: Miami in an episode that was entitled "MIA/NYC Nonstop." The other time was in season four during the "Felony Flight" episode.
While the location of Miami is important to the scenarios in the show much of the show is actually filmed off location in California and other Florida towns. While the series utilizes violent crimes to develop storyline they have often utilized violence or the effects of violence in order to retire characters from the show. CSI: Miami focuses on one single case per episode instead of its counterparts which focus on several cases. Due to this they are able to go more in-depth in each situation raising more questions and further exploring the violent crimes that were committed. Often times characters from the other two CSI series have appeared on episodes of CSI: Miami. When the original series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation began the crime scene investigation process was not very well known. In an interview with Zuiker one of the co-creators of the show the influence the show has had on pop-culture and their interest in real life violence can be seen in the following quote: "When I was researching CSI, the Las Vegas crime lab was called Field Services. The application ratio [from people wanting to do this work] was around 200 applications per year. After CSI launched, it went to over 5,000 applications per year. And they renamed Field Services 'Crime Scene Investigation.'" "All over the country, criminal-justice departments in colleges and universities are having a separate avenue of study for crime scene investigation. There's the CSI effect of jurors having preconceived knowledge about forensic science before they walk into the courtroom. It's snowballed into something quite big. I think the reason is, when you're watching these shows, you're learning. People had an idea about what forensic science was, although they were a little confused at the O.J. trial. We found a way to make it sexy and educational and fun. And people now know what DNA and blood spatter are."
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