Juvenile Justice 24 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Young suspects in the justice system, and whether children who commit crimes should be tried as adults.
- Season 4 · Episode 9
Juvenile
A cancer patient who grew marijuana is raped and murdered, and two middle-school boys each blame the other, leaving prosecutors to decide whether to try the older one as an adult.
- Season 6 · Episode 6
Conscience
A five-year-old is murdered after a birthday party, and the case against an unlikely young killer ends in a courthouse shooting by the victim’s father.
- Season 7 · Episode 12
Infected
A boy who hid while his mother was killed takes revenge on the philanthropist he blames, and his case becomes a fight over whether gun violence spreads like a disease.
- Season 7 · Episode 20
Fat
Stabler and a hot-headed temporary partner hunt the teens who maimed a schoolgirl, and uncover the beating that started it.
- Season 9 · Episode 3
Impulsive
A high school teacher and her 15-year-old student accuse each other of rape, and the boy’s lawyer argues that a sex addiction made him do it.
- Season 9 · Episode 13
Unorthodox
The rape of a young boy turns suspicion on his Hasidic community until the trail leads to a bullied 14-year-old whose lawyer blames a sex-saturated culture.
- Season 10 · Episode 12
Hothouse
The murder of a teenage math prodigy leads the squad from sex traffickers to her abusive father and the pressure cooker of a school for gifted children.
- Season 10 · Episode 20
Crush
An abused teenager who sent nude photos of herself is prosecuted for child pornography, and her harsh sentence leads SVU to a family court judge who profits from locking children up.
- Season 12 · Episode 4
Merchandise
A girl killed fleeing a farmers’ market leads the squad to a ring that buys poor American children, works them on a Long Island farm and sells them for sex.
- Season 12 · Episode 11
Pop
A boy’s death on a carousel exposes a ring of fathers betting on fights between their sons, and Stabler tries to free a teenage fighter from his abusive stepfather.
- Season 12 · Episode 23
Delinquent
A teenager caught in a woman’s bed falsely accuses Stabler of molesting him, and the detectives come to suspect he is a serial rapist.
- Season 13 · Episode 9
Lost Traveler
When a Romani schoolboy disappears, prejudice inside and outside his community points the investigation at a disabled neighbor while the real killers hide in plain sight.
- Season 14 · Episode 19
Born Psychopath
A little girl’s injuries lead SVU to her ten-year-old brother, whose lack of empathy alarms the detectives and Dr. Huang as his parents try to protect him.
- Season 15 · Episode 12
Jersey Breakdown
An underage strip-club waitress is raped by a VIP guest, and her case exposes a New Jersey prosecutor, a judge and a for-profit juvenile prison.
- Season 16 · Episode 6
Glasgowman's Wrath
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.
- Season 17 · Episode 3
Transgender Bridge
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.
- Season 18 · Episode 10
Motherly Love
A teenager kills his best friend to stop what his psychiatrist mother calls a rape, until SVU learns she was the one abusing the boy.
- Season 18 · Episode 11
Great Expectations
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.
- Season 19 · Episode 4
No Good Reason
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.
- Season 19 · Episode 14
Chasing Demons
After his courtroom outburst frees an accused child molester, Cassidy is suspected of killing him, and Benson risks her career to clear him.
- Season 20 · Episode 13
A Story of More Woe
A teenager confesses to killing her father to protect her younger sister from abuse, but the story points SVU toward the helpful neighbor who has taken the girls in.
- Season 22 · Episode 14
Post-Graduate Psychopath
Henry Mesner, the boy who shot Amaro, is released from a psychiatric facility at 18 and starts a killing spree that reaches Rollins’s family.
- Season 24 · Episode 2
The One You Feed
After a Bronx gang attacks a tourist family on the subway, Benson works the case with a Gang Unit captain who cares more about taking down the gang’s leader.
- Season 24 · Episode 11
Soldier Up
Benson and a Gang Unit captain discover that BX9 uses rape to force boys into the gang, and race to tie the gang’s leader to the attack on her.