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Special Victims Unit
- A Special Victims Unit (SVU) or Special Victims Division is a specialized division within some police departments. The elite squad of detectives in this division typically investigate crimes involving sexual assault or victims of non-sexual crimes who require specialist handling such as children, the elderly, or the disabled.
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Episode Guide
- 13. Duty to Hope New episode May 16, 2024
- The SVU searches for a pattern assailant before his crimes escalate to murder.
- 12. Marauder May 9, 2024
- Agent Sykes struggles to cope on the anniversary of her sister's disappearance.
- 11. Prima Nocta May 2, 2024
- A runaway bride calls the SVU for help on the day of her wedding; Rollins pitches in on her day off.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often shortened to Law & Order: SVU or SVU) is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Dick Wolf for NBC.
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- Season 20–Present
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the first spin-off of Law...
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- Peter Scanavino
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- Brian Cassidy
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- Dann Florek
Early life. Florek was born in Flat Rock, Michigan, the son...
- Jamie Gray Hyder
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Based out of the NYPD New York City Police Department's 16th precinct in Manhattan, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit delves into the dark side of the New York underworld as the detectives of a new elite force, the Special Victims Unit(SVU for short), investigate and prosecute various sexually oriented crimes including rape, pedophilia, and domesti...
Development
The idea for "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" originated with the 1986 "preppie murder" case of Robert Chambers, who strangled Jennifer Levin, a woman that he dated and later murdered during what he claimed was consensual "rough sex" in Manhattan's Central Park. The crime inspired Dick Wolf to write the story for the Season 1 episode of "Law & Order" titled "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die". However, even after writing the episode, the case continued to haunt Wolf, who wanted to go deeper...
Executive producers
Executive producer Neal Baer left Law & Order: SVU as showrunner at the end of Season 12, after eleven years (Seasons 2–12) on the show, in order to sign a three-year deal with CBS Studios. Baer was replaced by former "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" showrunner Warren Leight. In March of 2015, it was announced that Warren Leight signed a three-year deal with Sony Pictures Television, that will allow him to work on SVU one more season, its seventeenth. Leight joined the show in Season 13. It was...
Recurring Guest Stars
1. For a list of recurring characters, see SVU recurring characters.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit at NBCLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit at WikipediaLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit Episode Guide at WikipediaLaw & Order: SVU at NBC Wiki (Fandom)The twenty-fourth season of the American crime-drama television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was ordered on February 27, 2020, by NBC, which premiered on September 22, 2022, with a crossover premiere event, the season contained 22 episodes, and concluded on May 18, 2023.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Created by Dick Wolf. With Mariska Hargitay, Ice-T, Dann Florek, Richard Belzer. This series follows the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the New York City Police Department that investigate sexually related crimes.
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The twenty-fifth season of the American crime-drama television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was ordered on April 10, 2023, by NBC. Originally slated to premiere in September 2023, the season premiered on January 18, 2024, following the 2023 Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
The Special Victims Unit ( SVU) is a division within the New York City Police Department . The Detectives in this division investigate crimes involving sexual assault, the very young, or the very elderly, as well as any crime loosely connected with any of the three. The unit also deals with murder, abduction, robbery, and child pornography cases.
