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Bullying & Peer Pressure 11 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes

Young people pushed by classmates and friends into cruelty, silence or harm, and what follows.

  1. Season 3 · Episode 16

    Popular

    Aired March 1, 2002 · Rape and assault of a minor

    Stabler pursues a 14-year-old’s unreported rape against her wishes and uncovers junior high parties where sex is traded for beer and drugs.

  2. Season 5 · Episode 2

    Manic

    Aired September 30, 2003 · Double murder / prescription drug diversion

    A teenage survivor of a school shooting turns out to be the shooter, and his defense puts an antidepressant and its maker on trial.

  3. Season 5 · Episode 17

    Mean

    Aired February 24, 2004 · Murder / kidnapping

    A well-liked high school girl is found tortured to death in the trunk of her own car, and suspicion moves from a bullied classmate to the victim’s closest friends.

  4. Season 7 · Episode 11

    Alien

    Aired December 6, 2005 · Assault; false abuse allegation

    A Catholic schoolboy’s stabbing leads to an eight-year-old girl with two mothers, and her grandparents use the case to try to take her from the woman who raised her.

  5. Season 12 · Episode 18

    Bully

    Aired February 23, 2011 · Murder

    The death of a wine company’s timid finance chief exposes a CEO who abuses her staff and employees willing to stay silent for a fortune.

  6. Season 14 · Episode 21

    Traumatic Wound

    Aired May 1, 2013 · Sexual assault / conspiracy

    A teenager is sexually assaulted by a mob at a concert, and a security guard with post-traumatic stress is first accused and then becomes the key witness to a plot by her own friends.

  7. Season 16 · Episode 6

    Glasgowman's Wrath

    Aired November 5, 2014 · Stabbing of a child

    A girl is found stabbed in Inwood Hill Park after a hunt for an urban legend, her sister and their friend are missing, and a homeless man takes the blame.

  8. Season 17 · Episode 3

    Transgender Bridge

    Aired September 30, 2015 · Manslaughter as a hate crime

    When a transgender teenager dies after a 15-year-old boy pushes her off a park footbridge, the DA’s office takes the case from family court and tries him as an adult for a hate crime.

  9. Season 17 · Episode 12

    A Misunderstanding

    Aired January 20, 2016 · Sexual assault of a minor

    A 15-year-old says a senior assaulted her in a school darkroom, and SVU must prove a case built on what neither teenager said aloud.

  10. Season 18 · Episode 11

    Great Expectations

    Aired February 15, 2017 · Aggravated sexual assault and manslaughter

    A 13-year-old hockey player is sexually assaulted with a stick after a loss, and the case leads to his best friend and the father who drives him.

  11. Season 19 · Episode 4

    No Good Reason

    Aired October 18, 2017 · Rape of a teenager

    A sophomore disappears after a degrading photo from a party goes around her school, and her report of rape makes her the target of more bullying.

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