Incest 20 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Abuse inside the family and the long shadow it casts over victims years later.
- 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 4 · Episode 10
Resilience
A 15-year-old girl’s suicide attempt after a rape leads detectives into her family’s home, where her father’s obsession with having more children hides a murder.
- Season 5 · Episode 15
Families
A 16-year-old prep-school student is found dead and pregnant, and the baby’s DNA reveals a family secret that ties two New York households together.
- Season 6 · Episode 7
Charisma
A pregnant 12-year-old leads the squad to a cult whose leader escapes after a massacre of children and goes after the girl’s trust fund.
- Season 7 · Episode 14
Taboo
A newborn abandoned in the trash leads detectives to a brilliant student who denies ever being pregnant, and to a secret she shares with her father.
- Season 8 · Episode 19
Florida
Benson risks her career for her fugitive half brother, learns the truth about the man who fathered them both, and uncovers who really framed Simon.
- Season 8 · Episode 22
Screwed
A killer’s murder trial turns into a trial of the squad itself as Fin’s former stepson exposes the detectives’ past lapses.
- Season 10 · Episode 11
Stranger
A teenager who vanished four years earlier seems to come home, until the detectives start to doubt who she really is.
- Season 12 · Episode 19
Bombshell
The stabbing of a seemingly ordinary executive leads Benson and Stabler undercover at a sex club, where a pair of grifters prey on lonely married men.
- Season 13 · Episode 14
Home Invasions
The shooting of a gay-rights lawyer and her husband looks like a hate crime until the surviving daughter’s secret reshapes the case, while Rollins’s gambling catches up with her.
- Season 16 · Episode 13
Decaying Morality
A girl’s rape accusation against a man already suing the NYPD ends with her father killing him, before the evidence turns toward her uncle, a respected dentist.
- Season 16 · Episode 21
Perverted Justice
When a recovering addict recants the testimony that convicted her father of raping her, SVU and Bayard Ellis dig into how the original detective handled the case.
- Season 19 · Episode 7
Something Happened
A woman who knows she was raped but remembers nothing works through the night with Benson, and the memories lead to a dead man and a family secret.
- Season 19 · Episode 17
Send in the Clowns
A teenage piano prodigy disappears during a school trip to New York, and the case against the butcher last seen with her goes to trial without a body.
- Season 20 · Episode 1
Man Up
A 15-year-old boy refuses to name the man who raped him after a family hunting trip, and the squad comes to suspect his own father.
- Season 21 · Episode 4
The Burden of Our Choices
A pregnant 13-year-old flees Ohio to get an abortion in New York, and her fight to end the pregnancy exposes years of abuse at home and sets off a legal battle with Ohio prosecutors.
- Season 21 · Episode 13
Redemption in Her Corner
Kat suspects a boxing coach of sleeping with a 16-year-old fighter, but when her rival knocks him out and he dies, SVU uncovers abuse in the rival’s own home.
- Season 23 · Episode 18
Eighteen Wheels a Predator
A Central Park rape that seems solved is linked by DNA to a trucker who has assaulted women along the interstates for 20 years.
- Season 23 · Episode 19
Tangled Strands of Justice
A girl’s remains surface in Central Park 20 years after the search for her was abandoned on 9/11, as a rape victim is arrested through her own rape-kit DNA.
- Season 25 · Episode 7
Probability of Doom
Two dismembered child predators lead SVU to a pair of sisters, and to a young woman who has spent years shielding her little sister from their father.
More themes: Crimes
- Blackmail & Extortion
- Child Abuse & Neglect
- Child Murders
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Con Artists
- Cults
- Date Rape & Consent
- Domestic Violence
- Gang Rape
- Grooming
- Gun Violence
- Hate Crimes
- Hostage Standoffs
- Human Trafficking
- Kidnapping & Abduction
- Male Victims
- Murder for Hire
- Online Predators
- Prison Rape
- Prostitution & Sex Work
- Serial Killers
- Serial Rapists
- Stalking & Voyeurism
- Statutory Rape
- Vigilantes & Revenge
- War Crimes