Dann Florek

This series explores the judicial system from the point-of-view of police and prosecutors, the defense team, judges, jurors, and the defendants themselves.

Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler are joined by detectives John Munch and Fin Tutuola, and ADA Alex Cabot. This unit deals with the crimes that are painful, emotional, and disturbing. These detectives, who work in a special unit of the police department known as the Special Victims Unit, work the sexually based crimes such as rape, torture, pedophilia and child-abuse.

"The officers track down the most deviant of criminals, including dangerous religious fanatics, serial rapists, and child predators. They also grapple with deeply personal matters, as Stabler helps his troubled son and Benson finds herself the prime suspect in a violent case."--Container.

Officers with the NYPD's Special Victims Unit tackle the city's most heinous crimes.

The job of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit is to investigate especially heinous sex-related crimes. SVU also noses around the detectives' private lives, where professional detachment is the modus operandi. Knowing that Det. Olivia Benson was conceived during a rape and that her partner, Det. Elliot Stabler, is a fiercely protective dad enhances our understanding of how they react to sexual assault cases. Even the perpetrators are complex. Hot-button...