Sex Offenders 16 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Convicted offenders back in the community, and the debate over watching them after release.
- Season 1 · Episode 5
Wanderlust
A travel writer is found dead in the room he rents from a lonely landlady, and suspicion moves between her, her secretive boyfriend and her teenage daughter.
- Season 1 · Episode 7
Uncivilized
When an eight-year-old boy is found murdered, a paroled child molester living nearby becomes the obvious suspect and a test case for locking up sex offenders indefinitely.
- Season 2 · Episode 8
Taken
A teenage tourist reports a brutal rape at a new hotel’s grand opening, and a registered sex offender is jailed for it before the detectives find a family con aimed at the hotel’s owner.
- Season 2 · Episode 13
Victims
Someone is shooting paroled sex offenders named on a neighborhood watch flyer, and Stabler is assigned to find the killer of the man who maimed a child in one of his own cases.
- Season 3 · Episode 4
Rooftop
A string of rapes and murders of Black teenage girls in Harlem points first to an HIV-positive sex offender and then to a smooth-talking would-be rap promoter.
- Season 3 · Episode 13
Prodigy
The mutilated body of an animal-cruelty agent points detectives to a teenager who tortures animals, but the evidence keeps leading elsewhere.
- Season 4 · Episode 19
Appearances
A nine-year-old pageant contestant is found raped and murdered in a suitcase, and after her killer is caught, Cabot tries to hold the publisher of the material that inspired him responsible.
- Season 5 · Episode 21
Criminal
A graduate student is raped and strangled by a killer who knows forensics, and suspicion falls on her criminology adviser, a former addict Cragen once arrested for murder.
- Season 11 · Episode 5
Hardwired
A boy’s sexual abuse leads SVU from his wrestling coach to his stepfather and then to the leader of a group that campaigns for pedophiles’ “rights.”
- Season 12 · Episode 2
Bullseye
When a starved girl is raped near a children’s club, a neighborhood anti-predator group and its eager volunteer push the squad toward a registered offender.
- Season 14 · Episode 23
Brief Interlude
A Canadian mother on her first trip alone is found beaten and raped in Central Park, and the search for her attacker uncovers the nightlife she kept from her family.
- Season 17 · Episode 19
Sheltered Outcasts
Carisi lives undercover in a shelter for sex offenders to find a serial rapist, but the attacks point to more than one man and a killer outside the shelter.
- Season 18 · Episode 13
Genes
A rapist who claims a “rape gene” leads SVU to a therapy group where a serial attacker has confessed, and the law may protect what was said there.
- Season 22 · Episode 10
Welcome to the Pedo Motel
When a teenage girl is murdered near a hotel housing sex offenders, suspicion of a parolee coworker spreads to the neighborhood with deadly results.
- Season 26 · Episode 7
Tenfold
Fin and Bruno hunt the man who choked and raped Wallen Sipes, a sex worker who distrusts police, while Carisi asks Benson to help him check out a substitute teacher.
- Season 27 · Episode 14
Frequency
A baby monitor intercepts a live feed of a caged, non-speaking boy, and the squad races to find him while Griffin tries to reach him.