Filmed on location in New York, the drama showcases the sometimes-complex process of determining guilt or innocence, while lives hang in the balance. Often inspired by the latest headlines, the plots highlight legal, ethical or personal dilemmas to which people can relate.
New episode of crime drama. Detective Olivia Benson assists Fontana and Green as they probe the death of a con man who tried to call Benson just before he was murdered (2/22).
Crime drama. A deathbed confession prompts Fontana and Green to re-open a ten-year-old murder case. Fontana's unorthodox methods bring him into conflict with McCoy (3/22).
Crime drama. A car bomb kills a man who was fighting to terminate the life of his comatose wife. Fontana and Green investigate a host of pro-life campaigners (4/22).
Crime drama. Fontana and Green probe the murder of an undercover journalist who was investigating a notorious Latino gang (5/22).
Crime drama. The death of a teenage girl in custody is linked to an illegal contraceptive implant, which was fitted without the girl's knowledge (6/22).
Crime drama. A mother is murdered and her five-day-old son goes missing. The trail leads to a traumatised woman who stole the baby and pretended it was her own (7/22).
American crime drama series. The fatal shooting of a truck driver leads Fontana and Green to uncover a people-smuggling ring (8/22).
Crime drama. McCoy's life is in danger when a killer he helped convict orchestrates a bloody campaign of revenge from his jail cell (9/22).
Crime drama. Lieutenant Van Buren cuts corners when trying to track down the assailant who threw acid in the face of her friend's daughter (10/22).
American drama series about lawyers and police. A man is mysteriously killed after he desecrates a treasured edition of the Hebrew Torah in a synagogue (11/22).
US crime drama series. When a murdered accountant's mob connections are exposed, the detectives are drawn into the shady underbelly of the NYPD (12/22).
Crime drama. McCoy prosecutes a woman who helped her boyfriend to die. But the case becomes more complex when it emerges that a third person was involved (13/22).
US drama series. A promising Hispanic student at a private school is strangled, and Fontana and Green learn the victim was selling test answers to more privileged students.
Crime drama. Green and Fontana probe the death of a young tearaway who was sleeping rough in a warehouse. Evidence emerges that the boy's mother is responsible. (15/22)
The murder of a private defence contractor is linked to an atrocity in Iraq. A shocking twist in the case forces McCoy to make an unpalatable decision (17/22).
Crime drama. A foiled bank robbery leads police to uncover the kidnapping of a young girl. Fontana resorts to heavy-handed tactics to locate the child (18/22).
Drama series. The shooting of a hospital administrator leads Fontana and Green to probe the death of an AIDS-stricken girl (19/22).
American legal drama series. An undercover police officer is brutally murdered by an Albanian drug dealer after her cover is blown in a newspaper column. (20/22).
Crime drama. Detective Green's one-time replacement, Nick Falco, is implicated in the murder of a young woman (16/21).