Abuse of Power 24 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Bosses, officials, clergy and others who use their position to prey on the people who depend on them.
- Season 3 · Episode 19
Justice
An unidentified teenager dies after a rape and beating, and the hunt for her killer exposes the secrets of a judge’s family.
- Season 16 · Episode 17
Parole Violations
Carisi’s sister’s fiancé, a parolee, accuses his female parole officer of raping him at gunpoint, and Barba must persuade jurors that a man can be raped by a woman.
- Season 17 · Episode 20
Fashionable Crimes
A teenage model accuses a celebrated fashion photographer of rape, but she backs out under pressure, and then the photographer is shot dead at his family’s runway show.
- Season 17 · Episode 21
Assaulting Reality
A reality-show contestant sees on live television that she was sexually assaulted while unconscious, and SVU finds the producers hid who did it to protect their storyline.
- Season 17 · Episode 22
Intersecting Lives
A former inmate accuses a Rikers corrections officer of raping her inside and outside the jail, and SVU builds a case while his union closes ranks.
- Season 19 · Episode 11
Flight Risk
A co-pilot who seized her plane’s cockpit says the captain raped her, and SVU uncovers an airline that bought women’s silence.
- Season 20 · Episode 8
Hell's Kitchen
A waitress who refuses to call her assault rape leads SVU to her celebrity chef boss, his uncharged Brooklyn cases and the prosecutor who passed on them.
- Season 20 · Episode 15
Brothel
The death of a sex worker who fled a pop-up brothel leads Fin and a Vice sergeant from his past to corrupt cops and a judge who supplied the women.
- Season 20 · Episode 18
Blackout
After a police gala ends with defense attorney Nikki Staines drugged and raped, SVU’s inquiry leads to a well-connected lawyer with leverage over a judge and the department.
- Season 21 · Episode 1
I'm Going to Make You a Star
A powerful media mogul is accused of sexually assaulting a young actress during a late-night audition, and his connections reach into the DA’s office.
- Season 21 · Episode 10
Must Be Held Accountable
Enraged that a billionaire who abused his daughter walked free, a retired detective takes Rollins hostage while the squad works to put Getz behind bars.
- Season 21 · Episode 14
I Deserve Some Loving Too
A subway groper gives up his boss at the immigration service, who demands sex from women seeking green cards, and Rollins goes undercover as a bride to catch him.
- Season 21 · Episode 17
Dance Lies & Video Tape
When a ballerina’s secretly filmed sex video turns up on a porn site, SVU uncovers a ballet company where male dancers trade such videos and the leadership uses them to coerce women.
- Season 22 · Episode 6
The Long Arm of the Witness
After a judge throws out a rape case and launches a campaign for attorney general, the squad uncovers a history of sexual assaults dating to his college years.
- Season 22 · Episode 16
Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
A single mother in a luxury building’s subsidized apartment is pressured into sex with powerful men, and the trail leads to a celebrated housing advocate.
- Season 23 · Episode 1
And the Empire Strikes Back
SVU builds a sex-trafficking case against a congressman who used a nonprofit’s housing program to prey on homeless mothers and teenage girls.
- Season 23 · Episode 2
Never Turn Your Back on Them
Witnesses against Congressman Howard begin turning up dead, and a raid to find a missing teenage witness leaves Tamin badly wounded.
- Season 23 · Episode 4
One More Tale of Two Victims
A man posing as a repairman rapes single mothers in front of their young children, and the brass decide which victim’s case gets prosecuted.
- Season 23 · Episode 16
Sorry If It Got Weird for You
A woman who panics on a date with Velasco reveals that the founder of the dating app she works for raped her.
- Season 24 · Episode 5
Breakwater
A young lifeguard accuses the chief of the Bronx lifeguards of rape, and when he drowns on duty the squad uncovers how the chief qualified his staff.
- Season 24 · Episode 7
Dead Ball
A reporter accuses a soccer superstar of rape and then withdraws, and the squad’s search for other victims leads to his best friend’s teenage daughter.
- Season 24 · Episode 19
Bend the Law
Carisi must build a case against his own boss’s husband when 15-year-old girls are found serving members of an exclusive club, while Velasco tracks down an old cartel friend in Maine.
- Season 24 · Episode 20
Debatable
A teenage debater who torched her team’s bus says she was raped, and the trail leads from her teammates to the married coaches who took her under their wing.
- Season 27 · Episode 7
False Idols
When an author’s assistant stabs the author’s husband and accuses him of rape, SVU looks at how much his celebrated wife knew and enabled.