Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

American television. I enjoy watching psychological thrillers such as Mr. Robot, while my sister is into crime shows such as Law and Order: Special Victims Unit or Making A Murderer. While these shows may promote different values than Ronca de Oro, they hold a different meaning for the both of us. Mr. Robot may allow me to view mental illness in a different light, while Law and Order may teach viewers what it’s like to deal with crimes and what the consequences may be for that person. This is…

her right ear and eighty percent of her hearing in the other due to an illness and high fevers. Her parents grieved over the loss of her hearing and refused to send her to a deaf school. Instead, they learned some sign language and put Marlee into special programs for students with hearing loss. Although, Marlee’s parents learned some sign language, they encouraged her to use her voice in addition to ASL. Marlee first was introduced into acting…

techniques (Roesch, 2015). The legal system, which regulates our life and society makes perfect sense to depict in television dramas. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered in 1999, and the premise of the show is showing how detectives investigate and convict criminals of sexually based crimes (NBC, 2015). Newer shows like, How to Get Away with Murder which is about a law professor and criminal defense…

promoted to Captain, and transferred to the Homeland Security Unit. This is a good thing and a bad thing! My background with the department includes, patrol throughout the twelve-district stations…

was younger, I took an interest in tv shows such as Law & Order and Criminal Minds which were my two favorite shows to watch. I understood not everything was real in the shows such as profilers, the way they got DNA samples back so fast, and the way computers would take a DNA sample found at the crime scene and match them to a specific individual within seconds leading them to the perpetrator. Watching these shows led to my dream of being a Law Enforcement Officer, Corrections Officer, or FBI.…

Matter movement came to fruition in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a young and unarmed black male. Since then, the movement has demonstrated against other deaths of many black men believed to have been victims of police brutality. Despite the scrutiny behind police practices such as the chokehold and racial profiling, which are both deemed illegal, the police have not changed these practices and instead made them legal under different names such as…

with the fact that marijuana should be legal. Because many people have gotten caught with drugs that are illegal, they have been put into jails and prisons for their bad decisions. However, these local jails and prisons are getting overcrowded and the law enforcement budgets have reframed the issue. In Florida, voters were to decide if they wanted marijuana to be legalized even just for medical uses. Many local jails and prisons are getting overcrowded because of all the men and women that…

rape and sexual assault in places of work, education and duty have been brought to the table for awareness and reform. In many cases the justice system works against victims. Too many stories tell the events of detectives and district attorneys inappropriately favoring the accused and not attempting to investigate the claim of the victim. Further accounts of colleges and universities not complying with regulation to investigate all assault allegations and report felony charges to the police are…

big problem if the police officers and the court system put their own personal beliefs in the way of the law and are prosecuting minorities unfairly. Even though blacks and Latinos together make up just 30% of the general population, they…

public. Though, some segments of the population see law enforcement in a negative light. The major differences in how people view law enforcement have traditionally been most clearly seen along demographic lines. One statistic showed, “68% of Whites and only 18% of Blacks expressed confidence in law enforcement,” (Casandra & Ray, 2013). However, more people are starting to fear law enforcement for several reasons. One of the main reasons people view law enforcement negatively is because of the…